C 3386) 
PHYSOSTEGIA IMBRICATA. IMBRICATED 
PuvysostTectra. 
Class and Order. 
DipynamiA GyMNosPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lazurz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx per anthesin tubuloso-campanulatus, post anthesin 
inflato-campanulatus, obscure sub 10-venius, subzequaliter 
9-dentatus vel truncatus vix dentatus. Corolla tubo longe 
exserto, intus exannulato, fauce inflata, limbo bilabiato, 
labio superiore suberecto subconcavo integro vel emargi- 
nato, inferiore patente trifido, lobis rotundatis, medio ma- 
Jore emarginato. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscen- 
dentia, subdynama, inferioribus eminentibus. Anthere 
approximate, biloculares, loculis parallelis distinctis nudis. 
Stylus apice subequaliter bifidus, lobis subulatis apice — 
stigmatiferis. Achenia sicca, levia. Benth. <a 
Specific Name and Character. 
Puysostecia* imbricata ; caule elato, foliis elliptico-lan- 
ceolatis grosse serratis, spicis paniculatis tetragonis 
floribus erectis dense imbricatis, corolle labio superiore 
valde concavo, tubo vix inflato. 
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The Genus Puysosteeta is founded upon the Dracoce- 
PHALUM Virginianum of Linn. and Bot. Mag. t. 467, to 
which Species the learned and ingenious author has referred 
the DracocerHatum lancifolium, Mancu, D. variegatum, 
Venr., D. denticulatum, Arr, (and Bot. Mag. t. 214), D. 
speciosum, 
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ee From Puow, a bladder, and orsyw, to cover, probably from the swollen 
*racter of the calyx which covers the Fruit. 
