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DODARTIA ORIENTALIS. ORIENTAL DoDARTIA. 



Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Genwic Character. 



Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. labium inf. duplo longius. Caps. 

 2-locularis, globosa. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Dodartia orientalis; foliis linearibus integerrimis glabris. 



Sp. PI. 883. Willd. 3. p. 355. Hort. Kew ed. alt. 4. 



p. 52. Flor. taur. cauc. 2. p. 84. Gmel. Sib. 3. p. 



200. n. 9. Mill. ic. t. 127. 

 Dodartia orientalis flore purpurascente. Tourn. Corol. p. 



4:7.— It. 3. t. 208. Engl ed. 3. p. 188 c. icone. 

 Coris juncea aphyllos. Amm. Ruth. N. 46. t. b. 



This singular plant, which is more curious than beautiful, 

 was first discovered by Tournefort in his travels in the 

 Levant, near a monastery in the neighbourhood of Mount 

 Ararat. This celebrated botanist gave it the name of Do- 

 dartia, in honour of M. Dodart, of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences, at that time physician to the then Dowager Princess 

 of Conti, and afterwards to the King. M. Dodart, he re- 

 marks, was one of the most learned men of his age, and equally 

 esteemed for his modesty and integrity. It is also tound very 

 plentifully in salt-marshes in Caucasus. 



A hardy perennial. Cultivated by Philip Miller in 1752. 

 Flowers July and August. Communicated by Messrs. 

 Whitley, Brame and Milne. 



