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HALLERIA LucIDA. AFRICAN FLY- 
HoNEYSUCKLE. 
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Clafs and Order. 
DripyNAMia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic Charaéter. 
« Cal. 3- f. 5-phyllus. Cor, 4-fida. Bacca fupera, bilocularis, 
poly{perma, a 
Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
HALLERIA Jucida; foliis ovatis acuminatis ferratis, corollis 
bilabiatis, calyce triphyllo, ftaminibus exfertis. /illd, Sp. 
Pl. 3. p. 310. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 37- 
HALLERIA Jucida; foliis ovatis, corollis bilabiatis, calyce 
triphyllo. Thunb. Nov. A&. Up/. 6. p. 39- 
HALLERIA. Hort. Clif. 323. Fabric. Hort. Helm/. 389. ? 
HALLERIA Uucida. Sp. Pl. 872. Mart. Mill. Did. 
LONICERA foliis lucidis acuminatis dentatis fru€tu_ rotundo. 
Burm, Afric. 244. t. 89. f. 2. 
Descr. Stem fhrubby, four or five feet high, trichotomoufly 
branched. Leaves oppofite, petiolated, dependent, oval- 
acuminate, ferrate, fhining, netted-veined, veins depreffed on 
the upper furface, pale underneath. Flowers of a dull blood- 
colour, growing on the naked ftems below the leaves, on aggre- 
gated, fubverticillate nodding peduncles. Calyx perfiltent, of 
one leaflet irregularly divided into three or four obtufe lobes. 
Corolla irregular, tube an inch long, fomewhat curved, funnel- 
fhaped: limb bilabiate: the upper lobe emarginate, lateral 
ones very obtufe, lower /ip very fhort, preffed in underneath. 
Stamens four, equal-exferted : anthers incumbent. Befides the 
four perfe€t ftamens, there is the rudiment of a fifth filament — 
half the length of the tube, fterile. Germen {uperior, a 
conical, 
