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giores, summ:e breviores angustiores. Calyces 3 lin. longi, 
laciniis apice rotundatis et brevissime mucronulatis inter se 
subequalibus. Corolla viridis fundo rubescente; tubus 
(tubus cum faucibus N. ab E.) 2} lin. longus, intus basi 
brevissime glaber, dein antice gibbus, intus lineis D elevatis 
pilosis notatus, labia inter se et tubo subzequalia, palato callis 
2 brevibus elevatis glabris ad faucem conniventibus notato. 
Stamina galeam subzquantia. Ovarium supra medium 4- 
ovulatum, basi annulo carnoso einctum. Capsula coriacea, 
8-9 lin. longa, a basi ad medium sterilis, supra medium 
2-A-sperma. 
Of the five elevated, hairy, longitudinal lines in the tube of 
the corolla, the upper one branches into the two middle nerves 
of the upper lip of the corolla, the two lateral ones terminate in 
the filaments of the stamens, the two lower converge to a point 
where they meet the two callosities of the palate. 
2. Adhatoda Kotschyi, N. ab E. in DC. Prod. 11. p. 897.—A 
Senegalese and Nubian plant, of which there appears to be a 
fragment in Don’s collection, without any indication of the 
station. 
8. Adhatoda (Tyloglossa) diffusa, Benth. ; caule elongato her- 
baceo diffuso ramoso piloso, foliis distantibus ovali-oblongis 
pilosulis, floribus verticillato-subsenis sessilibus, bracteis obo- 
vatis orbiculatisve ciliatis, bracteolis exiguis, laciniis caly- 
cinis lineari-lanceolatis subciliatis, capsulis glabris calyce 
duplo longioribus.— Fernando Po, Vogel. 
Affinis 4, Rostellaria, imprimis bracteis distinguitur. Caulis 
pluripedalis, basi radicans, ramis floriferis adscendentibus, 
pilis patentibus rigidulis; internodia inferiora valde elongata. 
Folia petiolata, 14-3 poll. longa, utrinque acutata, membra- 
nacea, pilis utrinque paucis conspersa, cujusve paris sepius 
mequalia. Bractee petiolo multo breviores, membranacez, 
margine longe ciliatz, calyces sæpius excedentes. Bracteole 
minute, Calyz 2 lin. longus, laciniis parum inzequalibus mar- 
Ene subscariosis et plus minus ciliatis. Corolla 6-7 lin. 
longa (rosea ?), extus apice pilosa; forma floris et genitalia 
fere A. Kotschyi. 
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