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‘ScUTELLARIA ORIENTALIS. YELLOW-FLOWERED 
Skuti-Cap. 
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Class and Order. 
‘Dipynamra Gy MNOSPERMIA. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. ore integro: post florescentiam clauso, operculato. 
Cor. tubus elongatus. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Scurettaria orientalis ; foliis incisis subtus tomentosis, 
Spicis rotundato-tetragonis. Sp. Pl. 834. Willd. 3. p. 
171. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 136. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 
p. 426. 
Casstpa orientalis, folio chameedryos, flore luteo. Tourn. it. 
n.3 p.306. cumicone. Engl. ed.3. p.143. Comm. rar. 
30. t. 30. Mart. Cent. 18. t. 18. 
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Descr. Stem assurgent, branched, villous. - Leaves petioled, 
ovate-oblong, crenate-serrate, rugose, hoary underneath. 
Spike four-cornered. Bractes quite entire, canoe-shaped, 
obsoletely three-nerved, equalling the tube and faux of the 
corolla. Calyx, as in the rest of the genus, helmet-shaped, 
with a sort of lid at the back, which closes over the seeds 
after the blossom falls. Corolla downy, wholly yellow, but 
tube and faux paler than the lower lip and tip of the upper. 
Anthers of the upper stamens didymous : ‘those of the lower 
simple. ‘Taste of the leaves, after a little chewing, intensely 
bitter, but not very permanent. 
The species of Scurennarta are far from being well under- 
Stood. It is very evident that more than one have been con- 
founded under the name of orientalis. In the 1Ath edition of 
the Systema Vegetabilium, published by Professor Murray, in 
the life-time of Linnavs, an observation was added, that the 
Corolla. 
