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ScuUTILLARIA ALTISSIMA. TALL SkuLtecat: 
Les LeebE 
; Class and Order. 
Dipynam1a GyMNOSPERMIA. 
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. Generic Character. 
__ Cal. ore integro, post florescentiam clauso, operculato. 
Cor. tubus elongatus. 
Specific Character and Synonyns. 
Scurettarra altissima ; foliis cordato-oblongis acuminatis 
Serratis, spicis subnudis. Sp. Pl. 836. Willd. 3. p. 
176. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 136. n. 21. Hort. Kew. ed. 
alt. 3. p. 429. m. Eneycl. Bot.7. p. 706. 
: orientalis altissima urtice folio. Tourn. 
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Ops. Stem erect, Square, smooth, from two to four feet — 
high. Branches slender. Leaves cordate-ovate ; (lower _ 
ae with large iim oe sd ion 
ikes, secund, growing by pairs, e, or ¢ 
short petlicele feds + a a the ¢ , lan- 
fate. Calyx increased after deflorescence. large, 
upright, purple, not blue; tube several times longer than 
e~ limb two-lipped : lips unequal, entire. 
_ «rom the very imperfect specimen of TourneFrorT’ s plant, 
ity eeanksian Herbarium, me cannot decide nr ge 
> Sut our plant agrees with the garden specim ! 
“aie herbarium, and, we have no doubt, is the species 
“ultivated by Par. Mruuen. oo A ea! 
Scuretzarta alti sima, differs from peregrina in having 
er bractes, and in the entire, not trifid, under-lip. In 
. Weng of its tube it exceeds most of the othet Spee 
ie Gist no Geure of dus plant hae hoe! ' : : 
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