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CEDRONELLA pallida. 
The Pale Cedronel. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. LAMIACEA. (LABrATES, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 659.) 
‚CEDRONELLA, Mench.—Calyz tubulosus vel campanulatus, sub-15- 
nervius, ore subsequali vel obliquo, 5-dentato. Corolla tubo exserto, intus 
nuda, fauce dilatata, limbo bilabiato, labio superiore recto subplano emar- 
ginato-bifido, inferiore trifido, lobo medio maximo. Stamina 4, adscendentia, 
didynama, inferioribus brevioribus. Anthere biloculares, loculis parallelis. 
Stylus apice subsequaliter bifidus, lobis subulatis apice stigmatiferis. Achenia 
sicca, lzevia. Herbe.  Verticillastri in spica vel racemo terminali approxi- 
avid Folia floralia bracteeformia. Bractee parve, setacec.— Benth. 
ab. 501. 
C. pallida ; foliis omnibus cordato-ovatis petiolatis obtusis crenatis subtus 
pubescentibus obsoletè foveatis, verticillastris nudis spicatis, corollee 
tubo calyce parum longiore laciniis omnibus rotundatis. 
Mr. Bentham has pointed out to us that the Gardoquia 
betonicoides, mentioned in this work for 1838, No. 159 of 
the miscellaneous matter, is probably the Cedronella mexicana, 
as is certainly the plant figured under the former name in the 
Botanical Magazine, t. 3860; and upon reference to the 
original specimen, we are able to confirm this conjecture. 
This species, therefore, which has also fifteen veins in its 
calyx, and the back pair of stamens longest, will also belong 
to Cedronella, although it is distinct from C. mexicana. 
Like that plant, it is a native of the North of Mexico, 
whence the seeds were obtained by Frederick Scheer, Esq., 
who gave them to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden 
the flowers were produced in October last. It is, however, 
very inferior in point of beauty, its blossoms being a pale 
dull red, instead of a rich purplish crimson. 
As a species, it is known by its leaves being invariably blunt, 
and somewhat heart-shaped, even next the inflorescence, by 
their undersurface being so closely covered with very fine down, 
that the little pits, or secreting cavities, are concealed, by the 
tube of the corolla being very little longer than the calyx, and 
