DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. _ re 
9, are merely naturalized, the rest natives, common to 
Europe and America. 
12. * LEPTANDRA. (Veronica Firginiea, L.) 
Calix 5-parted, segments accuminate. Corolla 
_tubular-campanulate, border 4-lobed, a little 
ringent, unequal, the lower lamina narrower, 
Stamina and at length the pistillum much ex- 
serted; filaments below, and tube of the corolla 
pubescent. Capsule ovate, acuminate, 2-celled, 
~many-seeded, opening at the summit? — 
Natural Order. —ANTIRRHINEE. | 
_ Root perennial; stem angular, (sopretines: pentangular) 
tall. L Leaves yerticillate in 4s, 5s, and 63, never simply op- 
_ “posite or ternate. Flowers in very long and dense spikes; 
spikes aggregate, nearly terminal. Calix 5-parted. Flowers 
__ -tubul paperical campanulate, pubescent within; border 
the upper lobe somewhat laterally deflected to- 
filaments of the stamina, the three lower lobes" 
ntral divisi ower. Staminaexserted, 
per lobe of the « the lower part of 
Ramen pubescent, at length divaricate; anthers core 
in laments -celled. Style at first shorter than the sta- 
mens, persistent on the fruit, and then exserted longer 
than the stamens; stigma somewhat capitate, flat, eeete os 
entire. - Capsule ovate, acuminate, a little com 
_ the summit, with 2 marginal nerves contrary to the dies: 
__ piment, valves with inflected margins contiguous to the 
seminal placenta, which occupies the place of a dissepi- 
ment, valves 2, only opening. about bas Say down; seeds 
numerous, ovate? 
From this examination it will be evuient that the pre- 
sent plant does not appertain to the same order as 
Veronica, but arranges directly with the ANTIRRHINER 
and. immediately before the genus Pederota, from which 
it ds readily distinguished both by habit and charac- 
ter, not having a disti labiated corolla, In Pederota 
also, the corolla is some rotate, the upper lobe gen- 
erally em e, the filaments shorter than the corolla, 
and the anthers converging as in many didynamous flow- 
ers. = 
Spectres, 1. L. virginica, (common also to Japan, or more Bs oi 
aepiehly a distinct species of the same genus. A A variety 
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