1244 
CHASMONIA* incisa. 
Cut-leaved Chasmonia. 
DIDYNAMIA GY MNOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. LABIATE. i 
CHASMONIA. — Calyx sulcatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore integro, 
inferiore rotundato (7-) 6-dentato, dentibus spinosis. Corolla ringens, 
galeà emarginatà planá, labio 4-lobo. Anthere lineari-oblonge. Stigmata 
eequalia. /nvolucrum 3-partitum, basi calycis affixum, spinosum. — Presi. 
Flora Sicula 1. p. xxxvii. 
C. incisa. Presl. 1. c. i / 
Moluccella spinosa. Linn. sp. pl. 821. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 128. Spreng. 
syst, 2. 745. È 
Molucca spinosa. Dodorns. pempt. 92. | 
Melissa moluccana fetida. Bauh. pin. 229. 
Caulis guadratus, glaber. | Folia long? petiolata, inciso-palmata, spinosa, 
glabra. Bractea cuique flori tripartita, laciniis spinosis, subulatis, sub- 
pilosis. Calyces inflati, rigidi, reticulati, tubo sulcato, basi glanduloso, 
bilabiati; labio superiore dilatato, ‘erecto, inferiore rotundato, radiatim 
7-dentato : dentibus long? spinosis, inequalibus. Corolla ochroleuca, pilosa, 
calyce brevior, galeá convexd, leviter emarginati, labio subcuneato, pariter 
4-lobo. Anthere glabre, discrete. 
The plant from which our drawing of this rare plant 
was taken, in the Nursery of Messrs. Young, of Epsom, had 
been raised from seed collected by Mr. Philip Barker Webb. 
It is a native of Sicily and other parts of the Mediter- 
ranean ; and is one of the oldest inhabitants of our Gardens, 
having been introduced, according to the Hortus Kewensis, 
so long since as 1596. It is a hardy annual, flowering in 
July and August. fi” 
Stem square, smooth. Leaves on long stalks, cut- 
* From xaruáo, to gape wide, in allusion to the yawning mouth of the 
calyx. 
