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CRYPTOPHRAGMIUM VENUSTUM. STATELY 
CrRYPTOPHRAGMIUM. 
I i ae ee 
Class and Order. 
| Dranpria MonoeyniA. 
—_— Ord —AcaNTHACER. ) 
Generic Ebnriilcr. 
Cal. 5- partis equalis. Cor. bilabiata val" ringens,, tubo 
erecto. Stam. 2, lateri infero tubi inserta. Anthere bilo- 
cellate, antice maxime contigue rimaque simplici dehis- 
centes, loculi fundo septo communi bilamellato diviso. 
Capsula tetragona, bilocularis, septo adnato, polysperma, 
a basi seminifera. Semina retinaculis sustensa.— Inflores- 
centia 5 racemi vel spice secunda@, vel glomerato-subverti- 
_ Bractew et bracteolz pales: ol i cit Nees 
v. Esenb. re = 
ects Character and Borys! 
CrypropHracMium * venustum ; spica terminali composita 
brachiata, foliis ellipticis in petiolum alate decurrenti- | 
bus denticulatis aga bhi corolla calyce multo sgn. 
‘ Nees. 
CryProPHRAGMIUM vena Nees von Bieab. Atootle. 
Ind. Orient. in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 3. p. 100. 
Justicia venusta, Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 1. pe t. 66. 
Ajied. Catal. n. 2470. a. b. 23 
Dascr. A ahr according to Dr. Warsi, aitaintlig a 
height of four to men feet in its native country, with ‘a 
slightly 
* From xpuwros, concealed, and Qpuyyos, a partitides = the concealed’ 
dissepiment of the anther. 
