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bus. Stijhfs e centro ovarii inter lobos erectus, filiforinia, apice viilgu breviter 2-fldus, raiixia 

 4 fidiis, lobis ramisve antice et postice sitis filiforinibiis v. rariiis complanatis apice intror- 

 s\iiQ stiginatosia aqualibus v. postico breviore ; rarius stylus subinteger, Omtla iu quoque 

 lobo ovarii sulitaria, erecta, aiiatropa, Fntdus n'^inB&imo calyce persistente inclusus, 

 ovario conformis, 44obu3 v, abortu 3-1-lobus, lobis in niiciilas totidcm indehiscentes 1- 

 spermas secedentes ; nucuire siccse crustaceae v, dimnsculfe rarius camosie v. subdrupacere, 

 Iftives tuberculosa v* reticulato-rugosjo, raiius ala appendiculat^, areola basali parva v. 

 rarius majore obliqua v, laterali affixte. Semina in nuculis .solitaria, erecta, ima basi v. 

 lateraliter juxta basin afflxa, recta v. rarius incurva^ testa membranacea. Albumen parcum 

 V. 0. Eirihryo seinini conformis, cotyledonibus planis v- plano-convexis camosulis, axi fruc- 

 tus parallelis v, rarius transversis, radicula brevi infera, rarius incurva cotyledonibusque 

 incnmbente v. accumbente. 



Herbas suffi-utices fruticesve, rarissime arborescentes w scandentes, ramis oppositis 

 verticillatisvesiepissimetetragonis. Folia oppositav. verticillata, exstipulata, integerrima 

 dcntata v, varie dissccta, reticulato-penniveniaj uti calyces v. interdum etiam caules et 

 corollje glandulis parvis globosis oleo a^thereo valdc aromatico rcpletis obtecta, priesertim 

 in Ocmioideis et Satureviieis, Inflorescentia thyrsoidea, primaria centripeta, e cymis axil- 

 laribus oppositis centrifuge evolutis verticilladros fonuantibus composita ; cyni^ nunc 

 sessiles dense multifloncj mnic laxce, sessiles v. peduncuJatte, 2-fidtcv. dicbotome ramosie, 

 floribus secus ramos unilateralibus sessilibus v. rarius pedicellatis, nunc cymee utrinque 

 ad floreui unicum reducticverticillastro 2-floro ; verticillastri nunc omneaad axillas folio- 

 rum floralium caulinis conformium slti, nunc in spicas racemes v. thyrsos terminales 

 conferti, foliis floralibus diminutis v. ad bracteas breves latas sessilesqne nonnunquam 

 iinbricatas reductis. Bracteolse sub ramis cymarum oppositse, in raniis solitariee oppoaiti- 

 florie, s^pius parvic v, subulata^, exteriures rarius latiorea imbricatee v. acerosae sj^ine- 

 centes, Charactcres e disco liypogyno sumpti interdum incerti, nam glandula f^eu lobus 

 anticus siepe in eodem genera baud constans. 



Species ad 2,600, per omncm fere orbem terxaruni dibpcrii£e a regioiubus iequiiioctialibus usque ad 

 terras arcticas, ibidem tamen uti in summis montibus perpaucte, in regione Mediterranea 

 imprimis orientali maxima copia vigentes et uudique in ten-is temperatis v, in montibus inter- 

 tropicalibus libentlus florcntes, 



Ordo naturalis ab omnibus facile distinguitur exceptis Vcrhenaceis qulbuftcum arctc connectitur ; 

 genera Prostantherearum tt Ajugoidearum ovoxio breviter tantum lobato a Vitioeis nonnullis cha- 

 racteribus nuUis certis separantur ; habitus t:imcn diversus et in generibus VerUnaceis ubi fructiis 

 in nuculas solvitur ovarium integerrimnm est; genera Verbeiiacea ovario breviter lobato frucfum 

 drupaceum quamvis alte lobatum formant; genera tandem Prasiearmn cujus nucnlse subdrupacese 

 sunt ovarium habent a basi 4-partitiim. 



Generum ordinem et circumscriptionem Prodromi CandoUeani secuti sumua, paucis tantum 

 mutatia. 



Floras in racemo sparsi in paucis speciebus ScutdlarUe et Teucrti ; folia caeterum tarn floralia 

 quiim caulina in toto ordine constanter opposita v, verticillata. 



Calycis segraentum posticum deciduum in Scutellaria et Perilomta, Cal^"x demum sub fructxi 

 apertus iu paucis speciebus Phyllostegi^ StcnogynU perpaucisque Ocituoideis, 



Stamina antica necpostlcaad staminodia reducta in MosJa ct Ht/pogoiuphia ; antlicranim conncc- 

 tivum loiigc fillformis in Salvia affiuibusque. 



Stylus apico -l-fidiis in Cleonia, 



Ovarium supra discnm stipitatum in Scutellaria^ breviter tantum lobatum ijl Proslaj^fkercis et 

 AJitgoideis. 



Nuculse dorso appendice cyathiformi instructs in Tinnea, facie interioro cyathiformes in 

 Marstjpiantho, depresso-globosse in Salasaria et Scutellaria, carnosse in Gomphosiemviate^ subdnipacero 

 in caetcrisP/'flsititf, areola intiorsum lateral! afllxae in Frostantkcrcis et AjKgotdciSt areola extrorsum 

 obliqua in Lavandula^ 



Kadicula loogiuscula incurva cotyledonibus accumbena in Cktopfieria; semen tranaversiim radi- 

 cula incurva cotyledouibua incumbens in Sidazaria et SvutcUaria, 



