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vel emarginato. Stamina 4, didynama, inferiora longiora , adscendentia , 
apice arcuato-conniventia, corollà breviora vel rarius exserta, apice diver- 
gentia. Antherz biloculares; connectivum ssepe inerassatum; loculi dis- 
tincti, paralleli, divergentes vel demum divaricali, connectivo sape obli- 
que adnati. Styli lobi nunc equales subulati, nunc superior brevissimus, 
inferior elongatus, recurvus, complanatus. Nucule siccae, laeves. — Suf- 
frutices vel herbae. Verticillastri axillares vel spicati, rarius cymaeformes 
subpaniculati. Flores plerumque parvi, 'purpurascentes vel albi. Genus 
hine Satureie, illinc Calaminthze affine. A priore differt imprimis calyce 
angustiore, costis approximatis aequalibus, quarum 2 superiores e sécun- 
dariis simplices, inferiores duplicatzé 'et sic calyx 13-nervis evadit, chara- 
cter inter Labiatas constantior quam forma limbi, etsi hinc inde calyx 
casu abnormis costis numero auctis sit vel reductis. Micromeria distin- 
guitur a Calaminthis charactere minus certo, ealyce magis regulari, te- 
reti vel ovato nec basi antice gibboso, dentibus fere zequalibus et consi- 
milibus nec 3 superioribus difformibus in labium superius coalitis. Habitus 
etiam in plerisque speciebus diversus, sectione Pseudomelissá subinter- 
mediá. : . 
Sectio t. PieEngLLA Zenth. Lab. p. 573. 
Suffrutices orbis veteris. — Folia integerrima parva, margine sepius revo- 
luta, vnlgo dura. Verticilastri multiflori, eymis utrinque sessilibus vel pedun- 
eulatis, floribus in cymá& fasciculatis vel capitatis; rarissime laxe pauciflori, 
pedicellis elongatis, in M. Forskahlii solà biflori floribus sessilibus. 
* Stamina sub labio superiore arcuato-conniventia. Specie$ numerose, plereque' cha- 
racteribus levioris momenti separata. 
1l. M. Juriaxa (Benth. Lab. p. 373), pubescens, ramis ereotis strictis, foliis 
sessilibus infimis ovatis supremis lanceolato-linearibus omnibus obtusis mar- 
gine revolutis, florum fasciculis densis breviter pedunculatis, bracteis calycem 
sessilem subzquantibus , dentibus calycinis angustis rigidis erecto-conniventi- 
bus fauce intus nudá. Jj In regionis Mediterranese collibus siccis saxosisque : 
in Sicili& (Gussone!), regno Neapolitano (Requien !- Tenore !),. Dalmatiá (Vi- 
siani!), Peloponneso nec non Cretá et/Zacyntho copiose (Sibthorp! Margot! 
Aucher, n: 1633! in hérb. DC.), ins. Naxos (Olivier!), ins. Cos et Lerp infre- 
quens (Durville), in Olympo Bithynico (Mitchell !). Satureia Juliana Linn.! sp. 
p. 793, Sibth. et Sm.! fl. grec. 6, p. 32, t. 540, Ten. fl. nap. t. 151, f. 3. 
Sabbatia corymbosa Moench meth. p. 386. Satureia parviflora Pres] fl. sic. 1, 
p. 36? Rami pubescentes, vel in var. g hirsuti, duri, semipedales ad pedales 
et ultra, parum ramosi. Folia fere omnia ovata, suprema et floralia augu- 
stiora, verticillastros vix superantia. Florum fasciculi cum pedunculo vix 2 lin. 
longi. Calyces, bracteis dense suffulti, glabriusculi vel hirsuti; faucem etiam 
in fructiferis semper nudam vidi sed ex Guss. demum villis clauditur. Co- 
rolle minutissimse vix calycem.superantes.; labium superius brevissime emar- 
ginatum, Stylus coroll multo brevior, lobo superiore parum breviore, inferiore 
subcomplanato. (v. s.) EE ] ! 
p hirsuta. In Sicili& (Gussone:), Dalmati& (herb. Hooker!). Satureia Juliana 
var. eanescens Guss.! prodr. fl. sic. 2, p. 114. Satureia hirsuta Presl del. 
prag. p. 79? i 
2. M. CRISTATA (Griseb. spicil. fl. Rum. v. 2, p. 122), pubescens, ramis erectis, 
foliis sessilibus imis ovatis summis lanceolatis obtusis margine revolutis cilia- 
tis, stolonum quadrifariam imbricatis, florum fasciculis breviter pedunculatis, 
bracteis calyce subsessili 2-3-plo brevioribus, dentibus ealycinis erecto-paten- 
tibus intus versus faucem villosis. 5 In Macedoniá australi (Frivaldsky !), prope 
Byzantium .( Olivier .). Thymus inodorus Friv.! herb. Rum. non Desf. T. 
cristatns Hampe in flor& 1837; p. 233. Habitus et calycis dentes breves fere 
