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Class and Order. 
Pentanprta Monoeynia. 
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( Nat. Ord.—Boraeineg, ) 
1 Generic Character. 
Cal. -5-partitus. Cor. cylindrico -campanulata, fauce 
fornicibus subulatis in conum conniventibus clausa. Nuces 
basi perforate, Spreng. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
_Sympnyrum * Caucasicum; caule ramoso inferne hirsuto 
superne glutinoso, foliis ovato-lanceolatis basi atte- 
: nuatis semidecurrentibus hirsutis, calycibus obtusis. 
_ Sympnyrum Caucasicum. Marsch. Bieb. Fl. Tauric. Cauce. 
| —Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 563. Graham in Kd. 
New Phil. Journ. June, 1832. 
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Descr. Stem (two feet high) hairy near the bottom, 
higher up pubescent and viscous, slightly winged, flexuose, 
branched. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, hairy on both sides, 
but less harshly on the upper, and there, when young, sub- 
viscid, half-decurrent, the lower ones attenuated at the base, 
the upper pair oblique, sessile, and alternate. Racemes 
terminal, geminate, many-flowered, secund, and involute, 
common peduncle and pedicels gland uloso-pubescent. Calyx 
angled, the angles and blunt teeth ciliated ; when in fruit, 
distichous. Corolla at first red-purple, but losing this co- 
our as soon as it expands, and acquiring a lively rsa 
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