C 1555 ] 

 Phlomis tuberosa. Tuberous Phlomis. 



DlDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, 



Generic Characler. 



Cal 5-gonus, 5-dentatus. Cor. galea incumbens, carinato- 

 compreffa, barbata, emarginata v. incifa ; labium snferius pro- 

 portionatum : lobo medio majore. Stigna bifidum ; labio 

 fuperiore breviore. Brown in Hort. Kezv. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



PHLOMIS tuberofa • foliis radicalibus cordatis fcabris : flo- 



ralibus oblongo-lanceolatis, brafteis fubulatis hifpidis, caule 



glabro. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 122. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 



p. 408. Schkuhr Handb. 2. p. 160. /. 163. 

 PHLOMIS tuberofa; involucris hi Tpidis fubulatis, foliis cordatis 



fcabris, caule herbaceo. Sp. PL 819. Reich. 371. Hort. 



Upf. 171. Kritph. Cent. 4. n. 62. Mart. Mill. Dicl. n. 9. t 



G<ertn. Sem. 1.319./. 66. f. 9. 

 PHLOMIS involucri radiis fetaceis, foliis ex cordato lanceo- 



latis. Gmel. Sib. 3. p. 241. n. 73. f 

 PHLOMIS foliis cordiformibus, galea lacera. Hallcr in Comm. 



Goett. 1. p. 2ii. /. 12. 1751. 

 PHLOMIS urticae foliis, glabra. Amm. Ruth. 49. 

 GALEOPSIS maxima foliis hormini. Buxb. Cent. 1. p. 4. /. 6, 



.The tuberous Phlomis, as cultivated in our gardens, rifcs 

 Wtth fimple, ufually undivided (terns, from one to two feet in 

 height, though Miller defcribes it as having ftcms five or fix 

 feet high. The radical leaves grow on long hairy footttalks, 

 a re five or fix inches long, cordate, narrowing towards the point, 

 and unequally dentate, not unlike thofe of common Clary. 



Euxbaum's and Halle r's figures, above quoted, are both 

 evidently reprefentations of our plant. But Gmelin quotes 



