HEBENSTRETIA DENnTATA. ‘TOOTHED — 
| _ SHEBENSTRETIA. 2 cae 
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Clafs and Order. ' 
DipyYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 
Generic Chara@fer.° ~ 
Cal. 2-emarginatus, fubtus fiffus. Cor. 1-labiata lab. adfcendente, 
- g-fido. Cap/. 2-fperma. Stam, margini limbi corolle inferta. 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
HEBENSTRETIA dentata foliis linearibus_ dentatis, fpicis 
woo levibus. Linn. Syft. Veg. 570. Ait. Kew. 
= UV. 2. p. 356. 
- VALERIANELLA: africana, foliis angultis, flore macula ru- 
_ bicante notato. » Comm. Hort. 2. p. 247+ 
:  ~#£, 109. soe 
VALERIANOIDES flore monopetalo, femine unico ob- 
: : longo. Rati Suppl. 245- 
PEDICULARIS foliis anguftiffimis dentatis, floribus fpicatis. 
7 = Burm, afvic. 114. t. 42. fi 2o 
To this genus Linnaus gave the name of Hebenftretia, in 
honour of Jon. Ernst HeBENSTREIT, Profeffor of Medicine 
at Leipfic, who travelled into Africa, and publifhed Defini- 
tiones Plantarum in 1731. 
The prefent fpecies, a native of the Cape, and introduced 
in 1770 by Monf. Ricwarp, is now very generally met with 
in our greenhoufe colle€tions ; it accords but indifferently with 
the name of dentata, the leaves being for the moft part fo 
-flightly toothed, that the indentations are {carcely difcernible 5. 
it appears to vary in this refpeét, and perhaps runs into the 
integrifolia. ar 
It is fingular and pretty, but not fhewy ; produces its {pikes 
of flowers from February to November, fo that it is in boot ; 
