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Tas. 4420. 
SCUTELLARIA macranrua. 
Large-flowered Skull-cap. 
Nat. Ord. LaBiatz.—D1ipyNaMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4268.) 
ScureLLARIA macrantha; caule basi procumbente adscendente glabriusculo, 
foliis sessilibus lanceolatis obtusis integerrimis basi rotundatis subglabris 
ciliatis, floralibus calyce longioribus, racemis simplicibus, floribus oppositis 
secundis, calycibus pilosis, corollis amplis extus pubescentibus, tubo superne 
dilatato. Benth. 
ScureLLaRIA macrantha. Fisch. in Reichenb. Plant. Critic. 0.5. p.52. t.488. 
‘Benth. Lab. p.436. Walp, Repert. Bot. v. 3. p. 156. 
Scurenarta grandiflora. Adams. sec. Bunge (non Sims). 
ScurennaRia fc. Gmel, Fl, Sibir. v. 3. p. 228. 2. 50. 
Native of Eastern Asia ; extending from Dahuria (Dr. Fischer, 
Bunge) probably all the way to the great wall of China, where 
it was detected by Sir George Staunton. Seeds were sent to us 
from the Petersburg Imperial Garden by Dr. von Fischer; and 
our plants, raised from them, blossomed in the open border 
during the summer of 1848, in the Royal Gardens of Kew. It isa 
truly handsome and perfectly hardy plant, and we would strongly 
recommend its cultivation en masse, on account of its highly 
ornamental character, and because it continues long in blossom. 
Descr. Annual? Stems decumbent at the base, then erect, 
branched upwards; éranches four-angled, glabrous. Leaves 
spreading, opposite, lanceolate, a little inclining to ovate at the 
base, obtuse, glabrous, the margins a little downy or ciliated, 
the upper ones narrower and smaller, the upper floral ones 
shorter than the flowers, but much longer than the calyx. 
Flowers in large terminal spikes or racemes. Calye downy, as 
in the genus. Corolla large, rich purple, geniculated in the 
lower part of the tube, downy, “md two-lipped ; upper ip con- 
vex; three-lobed, lower ip broader, nearly plane. Stamens in- 
JANUARY Ist, 1849. 
