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Campanulate ^phacele. 



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Nat. ord. Labiate Jussieu. {Introduction to 

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SPHA C-EZjF Bentham, — Calyx campanulatus, subsequalis, 13-15-nervius, 

 venosus, 5-dentatus, intus fauce nuda. Corolla tubo exsertd, fauce sub- 

 mnata, bilabiata, labiis subaequalibus, superiori erecto bifido vel emarginato 

 subplano, inferiori paten te trifido- Stamina 4, sub labio superiori adscen- 

 dentia, Antherce biloculares, loculis linearibus divergentibus. Stylus apice 



subsequaliter bifidus. Achenia sicca, leevia. 



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campanulata ; ramis cano-pubescentibus, foliis subsessilibus oblongis basi 

 angustatis subtfis cano-tomentosis, axillis utrinque unifloris, corollis cam- 

 panulalis. Bentham MSS, 

 S. campanulata. Bentham in bot. reg 



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subteretibus 



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parva, oblonga v. ohlongo-Unearia, obtusa, crenata, rugosa, basi in petiolum 

 brevem angustata ; Jloralia calyce breviora. Flores subsecundi, oppositi. 

 breviter pedicellati. 



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^qualibus acutis. Corolla campanulata, calyce vix duplb longior, glabra, 



fauce valdi inflatd, limbi 

 bijido, inferiore S-Jido, lobo medio emar 



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This shrub is a native of Chile, where it is probably far 



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taken had been raised in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, from seeds collected by Mr. M'Rae near 



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paraiso, in 1825 : but we have m our possession 



tivated specimen, from the herbarium of the late Mr. James 

 I>own, of Cambridge, which marks its presence in England 

 at least twenty years ago. 



* 2?.«V,«,, or c-^pd^iXo,, literally gangrene, or mortihcation, is a name inai 

 was sometimes given by the Greeks to the Sage, apparently because Ot tbe 

 galls, or tumours, so common upon the species best known to them, i>. 

 pomifera. This species is still called (pcc<nc6fcnM'» in modern Greek ; a seeming 

 corruption of aipxKOfcJiXtx. 



