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HEBENSTRETIA FRUTICOSA. SHRUBBY 
HEBENSTRETIA. 
Class and Order. . 
Dipynamisa ANGIOSPERMITA, 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 2-emarginatus, subtus fissus. Cor. 2-labiata: labio. 
adscendente, 4-fido. Caps. 3-disperma. Stam. margine 
limbi corolla: inserta. 3 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
IepenstretiA fruticosa ; foliis lanceolatis dentatis glabris, 
bracteis integris, caule fruticoso. Linn. Suppl. 287. 
Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 570. Thunb. Prodr. p. 103. 
rejecto synonymo Bergeri. 
Descr. Stems suffruticose, branched, slightly hairy. Leaves 
linear-lanceolate, dentate or rather pinnatifid-dentate, smooth 
when full grown, but the younger leaves are somewhat hairy 
along the mid-rib on the underside. Bractes quite entire,’ 
ovate-acuminate, sometimes ciliate. Flowers in oblong spikes, 
white, night-smelling, but not agreeable, being a mixture of 
a fragrant with a rusty bacon-like scent. Calyx small, 
bipartite, enclosed by the involving bracte. Tube of corolla 
longer than calyx, filiform; limb one-lipped, erect, divided 
into four segments. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments 
inserted into the margin of the limb. Germen ovate. Style 
the length of the tube. Stigma capitate. 
The specific characters of Hrnenstretia fruticosa and 
erinoides, as given by Professor TuunperG, seem to be hardly — 
sufficient to determine to which our plant belongs; but it 
certainly corresponds best with fruticosa, as the leaves are 
smooth, not hairy, and dentate, not serrate; the younger 
bractes 
