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Tas. 6043. 
MENIN JA TURGIDA. 
Native of Cochin-China. 
Nat. Ord. AcantHacrm.—Tribe AsysTASIE&. 
New Genus, Mentnta, Fua. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyx 5-fidus, laciniis acutis purpureis, estivatione valvatis, 
Corolla ringeus, tubo in anconem flexo, ad faucem dilatato reticulato- 
venoso introrsum villoso, lobis estivatione imbricatis uno vexillari. Sta- 
mina 2 fertilia (absque rudimentis sterilium), inclusa, ad tubi basin, in- 
serta, anthere oblong inferne subsagittate, loculis parallelis purpurascen- 
tibus, connectivo crasso papilloso subapiculato. Discus hypogynus 0. 
Ovarium 2-loculare, stylus stamina subequans, stigmate obsolete 2-lobo ; 
ovula in loculis 4. Fructus . . . .. Dene. mss.—Herba glaberrima, 
sublignosa, febrifuga, amara, ramis obtuse tetragonis, ad nodos incrassatis 
et articulatis. Folia opposita, elliptico-lanceolata, obtuse acuminata, 
integerrima, breviter petiolata. Flores mediocres, in paniculam sesstlem 
thyroideam terminalem densifloram dispositi, bracteate et bracteolate, albi 
roséo reticulato. 
MENINIA turgida, Fua mss. 
For the opportunity of figuring this very interesting plant, 
which is a celebrated febrifuge in its native country, Tam 
indebted to my friend Professor Decaisne, who sent a living 
specimen of it from the Jardin des Plantes to Kew (where it 
flowered in April of the present year), and who has more 
recently supplied me with the generic character given above, 
and the following particulars :— 
Meninia turgida was established by M. Fua, who has 
studied carefully the organogeny of Acanthacea, but who has 
hitherto published nothing on the subject. The flowers were 
analysed by M. Decaisne in 1869, and found to be absolutely 
diandrous, without a trace of arrested stamens, so that it 
cannot be referred either to Asystasia or to Thyrsacanthus. 
The plant itself is remarkable for its febrifuge properties, 
which have been investigated by Mr. Weber; it is called 
Thuong-son by the natives, 
JULY Ist, 1873. 
