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COLLINSONIA ANISATA. ANISE-SCENTED 

 COLLINSONIA. 



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Clafs and Order. 



DlANDRIA MoNOGYNIA, vel pOtlUS Dl D Y N AMI A 

 GyMNOSPERMI A. 



Generic Characler. 



Cor. inasqualis : labio inferiore multifido, capillari. Sem. l. 

 perfeftum. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



COLLINSONIA anifata ; floribus tetrandris. 



COLLINSONIA ferotina ; foliis magnis oppofitis ovatis, 

 petiolis longis, fupremo pare unice feflili 

 cordato, panicula terminali ramofiffima. 

 JValt. Carol. 65. ? 



Descr. Stems ereB, two or three feet high, rounded, or 

 very obfoletely quadrangular, (lightly hairy but hardly rough. 

 Leaves oppofue, petioled, generally cordate, but fometimes 

 °vate, acuminate, crenate-dentate, nerved, rugofely veined, 

 Scarcely hairy, but harfh and roughifh, pale on the under fur- 

 face and covered with minute pellucid dots, barely vifible to 

 tbe naked eye. Inflorefcence a compound terminal racemus, 

 *uh fimpler axillary ones. Bracles ovate, acute, cihate, a pair 

 at each dlvifion of the peduncle. Calyx perfiftent, bilabiate: 

 u Ppe r lip three-toothed : teeth obtufe : teetb of the lower lip 

 **©, acute, a little longer than that of the upper. Corolla one- 

 Petaled," bilabiate : tube fcarcely longer than calyx : lower lip 

 lo ng, fringed. Stamens four, didvnamous : filaments very long, 

 becoming fpiral in drying: -anthers roundifh. Germens four, 

 of which generally three, fometimes two, are abortive : jlyl' e 

 Sorter than filaments, bent to one fide : Jligma fubbifid. ^ S jeed 



globular. 



