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TORENIA concolor. 
Spotless Violet Torenia. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARIACEE. (Fieworts, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 681.) 
TORENIA, L.—Calyz tubulosus, plicatus vel alatus, apice oblique 
5-dentatus vel bilabiatus. Corolla ringens, labio superiore emarginato vel 
bifido, inferiore trifido majore. Stamina postica fertilia, antica arcuata an- 
therifera basi appendice dentiformi vel filiformi aucta. Anther@ per paria 
arcte approximate vel cohserentes. Stylus apice subbilamellatus. Capsula 
oblonga, calycem non excedens. Herba gerontogee, tropice, vel pauce ex 
orbe veteri allate etiam in America tropica vigentes. Folia opposita. Racemi 
breves pauciflori fasciculiformes vel rarius elongati, terminales vel ramo excur- 
rente falso axillares, in dichotomia ramorum siti.—Bentham in DC. Prodr. 
x. 409. 
Sectio II. Vortenia.—(Nortenia, Pet. Thouars.) 
Calyx 5-costatus, costis 3 magis prominentibus vel alatis, in pedicello 
subdecurrentibus, apice bilabiatus labiis integris vel superiore 3-dentato in- 
feriore 2-dentato. —Caules elongati, diffusi vel suberecti.—Bentham, 1. c. 
T. concolor; diffusa, subpubescens, foliis petiolatis ovato-subrotundis cor- 
datisque serratis, calycibus elongatis costis 5 aequalibus acute carinatis, 
corolla calyce pauló longiore, filamentorum anticorum appendice brevi 
obtuso. 
Herba perennis, prostrata, subpubescens. . Caules acute tetragoni. Folia 
petiolata, ovata, subcordata, simpliciter serrata. Pedunculi acut? tetragoni, 
biunciales, umiflori. Calyx oblongus, papyraceus, quinquefidus, laciniis in 
phalanges duas coherentibus acutě carinatis ; tubo corolle brevior. Corolle 
tubus infundibularis, pollicaris, atroviolaceus ; limbus quadrifidus, patens, 
laciniis rotundatis, supremá duplò latiore emarginatd, violaceis, immaculatis. 
Filamenta violacea, 2 anticis longioribus, appendice brevi tereti obtuso auctis. 
This plant is probably regarded in Herbaria as 7. asiatica, 
but living specimens forbid its union with that species. Its 
leaves are roundish ovate, or even cordate, and by no means 
ovate-lanceolate ; their serratures are much smaller. The 
flowers have no side spots; and the tooth of the larger fila- 
ments is far shorter, and more blunt. Probably it is the 
same plant as was distributed by Dr. Wight, under the name 
of Torenia asiatica, No. 2205, while the true species is Dr. 
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