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PHAYLOPSIS LONGIFOLIA. LoNG-LEAVED 
PHAYLOpsis. 
KEKE KEE KEE EEE ERE 
Class and Order ; 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. — 
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Generic Character. : 
Cal. ineequalis, lacinia dorsali maxima. Cor. ringens: 
labio superiore minimo bifido. Ovarii loculi 2-spermi. 
Aruxitema Brown Prodr. p. 478. Micr: 
obs. p. 39, i 
Specific Character. 
PHAYLOopsIS longifolia ; caulibus erectis, foliis oblongo- _ 
ovatis acuminatis reflexis, spicis axillaribus brevibus 
laxiusculis, lacinia calycis dorsali corolla longiore. 
Rite, 
Mr. Rorert Brown, in his invaluable Prodromus, p. 478, 
has observed, that Jussieu has very properly separated 
Ruetiia Blechum and Blechioides from Ruewtia, restoring 
the original name of Buecuum, first given to the genus by 
t. Patrick Brown, in his history of Jamaica; but, at the 
Same time, this excellent botanist has remarked, that J Us- 
‘kv’s Birecnum anisophyllum ought not to be joined with 
genus, on account of its having very unequal calycine 
_ Segments, an ovarium with two-see ed cells, a capsule with 
€ segments of the dissepiment spontaneously separable, 
aid a different inflorescence; he consequently proposed 
the establishing itas a new genus, under the name of 
THEILEMA, but has since satisfied himself that WiLLDENOW’s » 
HayLopsis, though not accurately defined by him, is the 
_ Same genus; this name has therefore the right of priority. 
Ruenuia imbricata of Forskéhl, and some other species, 
latives of India and of Africa, belong to this genus; but 
hot having had an opportunity] of examining the plant 
itself, 
R NTHUS Wi endland 
