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EREMOSTACHYS laciniata. 
Jag-leaved Desert-rod. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Nat, ord. LaM1ACEX — (LABIATEs, Vegetable Kingdom, ined.) 
EREMOSTACHYS, Bunge. Calyx ample tubulosus, subcampanulatns 
vel infundibuliformis, dentibus 5, spinosis, vel limbo maximo membranaceo, 
mucroniformibus. Corolla tubo incluso, intus aunulato vel nudo, limbo 
hiante bilabiato, labio superiore elongato galeato subcompresso basi attenuato 
extus pubescente, intus margineque barbato, inferiore patente trifido, lobis 
omnibus rotundatis, medio latiore. Stamina 4, adscendentia, didynama, in- 
ferioribus longioribus. Filamenta superiora basi in appendiculam obtusam 
vel fimbriatam incrassata. Anthere per paria approximate, biloculares, 
loculis divaricatis. Stylus apice bifidus, lobis subulatis æqualibus vel supe- 
riore vix dimidio breviore. Achenia sicca apice densissime pilosa. —— Herbæ 
parum ramose. Folia radicalia caulinis ampliora integra vel dissecta. Verti- 
cillicastri multiflori sepe ad apices caulis vel ramorum approximati. Bracteee 
appresse. Corolle sepius ochroleuce.—Bentham Genera € Species Labia- 
tarum, p. 636. 
E, laciniata ; foliis pinnatisectis segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis linearibusve 
inciso-pinnatifidis, calyce amplo tubuloso campanulato apice vix dilatato. 
Bentham Genera $ Species Labiatarum, p. 636. 
E. laciniata, Bunge in Ledebour's Flora Altaica, 2. 416. 
This showy herbaceous plant is a common inhabitant of 
the eastern side of Caucasus and of the adjoining countries, 
where it is found on dry hills. Its great fleshy roots are 
evidently adapted to such situations only. 
In a wild state it is not half the size of the specimen now 
figured, nor are its leaves half the breadth: but at the same 
time the flowers seem to be larger and more conspicuous. 
This seems to indicate that the plant had been grown 1n too 
damp an atmosphere. It appears intended by nature to resist 
even a Persian summer. 
The aecompanying figure was made in April last in the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had been 
raised from seeds received from the Imperial Botanic Garden 
at Petersburgh. It proves to be a hardy perennial with large 
