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* GARDOQUÍA Hookéri. 
Scarlet Gardoquia. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. Lasiarx, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 239.) 
GARDOQUIA Fl. Per. Calyx tubulosus, 13-nervius, subincurvus, ore 
equali vel obliquo, dentibus brevibus rectis subegualibus vel subbilabiatis. Co- 
rolle tubus longé exsertus, rectus vel incurvus, intús nudus ; limbus bilabiatus, 
labium superius erectum subplanum emarginatum, inferius subpatens, lobis planis 
medio latiore. Stamina 4, subdidynama, inferioribus longioribus, laxé adscen- 
dentia, apice subdistantia, superiora subinde sterilia. Filamenta edentula. An- 
there biloculares, loculis distinctis parallelis vel subdivergentibus. Styli lobi 
subzquales. Achenia sicca, levia. Suffrutices fruticesve ramosissimi, foliosi, 
sepe procumbentes. Flores pulchri, sepiús coccinei. Bentham Gen. et Sp. 
Lab. p. 397. 
G. Hookeri ; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis obovatis subintegerrimis basi in petiolum 
brevem angustatis utrinque viridibus, pedunculis 2-3-floris, calycis glabri 
subbilabiati labio superiore breve bidentato erecto, fauce intús villis clausá. 
Bentham l. c. 401. 
Cunila coccinea, Nutt. ex Hooker exot. fi. 3. t. 163. 
Melissa coccinea, Spreng. syst. 2. 224. 
Gardoquia Hookeri, Don in Sweet. Fl. Gard. ser. 2. t. 271. 
A very pretty half hardy and half shrubby plant, native 
of Florida according to Nuttall, as quoted by Dr. Hooker, 
and of South Carolina according to Mr. Don. 
Our specimens were furnished by Mr. Marshall, gar- 
dener to Mrs. Langley of Thames Ditton, in Oct. 1834. It is a 
neat, and very desirable plant, easily propagated by cuttings. 
* Don Diego Gardoqui, Minister of Finance under Charles IV. of Spain, re- 
ceived the compliment of having this beautiful genus named after him, because of 
his having favoured the South American Expedition of Ruiz and Pavon. 
