# = 
200. © “@xdwpara. Do DODECANDRIA. 
fice oblique and gaping, the margin aivted: dark purple, 
rugose, Ciserick of of the tube white, spotted with purple, 
stigmas 3, anthers immersed in the style. A. hirsuta, 
Muh. Catal. p. $1. v. v, Abundant throughout Louisiana, 
and along the banks of the Missisippi, also on the moun- 
tains of South Carolina. 3. entaria. 
4.* hastata, Stem flexuous, simple and erect; leaves © 
mostly subcondgte-bastite, acute; peduncles nearly all ra- ’ 
dical, lip of the corolla ovate. 4. sagittata 2 Muhl. Catal. 
Pluk. almag. p. 53. phyt. t. 223. fi 2. Has. On the moun- 
tains of Carolina. Nearly ‘allied to A. Serpentaria. Leaves 
(in the specimen in Herb. Mubl.) attenuated, sublanceo- 
late, auriculate, acute = mage Perhaps a distinct 
Species. - 
Of this genus of 41 or more ‘species, 20 20 almost exclu- 
-sivély shrubby are indigenous to the tropical regions of 
America, some additional species have also, no doubt, © 
been added by the researches of Humboldt, one of these 
described by that celebrated. traveller indigenous tothe ~< 
_ borders of La Madalena, produces. flowers of such extra- 
». ordinary magnitude and tenacity as to afford hats for chil- 
dren; the remainder of the genus is principally indiag 
Pe ae rn OF Meee and the Levant. 
ee ee a = 
IV. —DODEUANDRIA. 
- 624, ASARUM. L. (Asa wabacca, Indian ginger.) 
= | Calix subcampanulate, $ or 4-cleft. Corolla. 
none, 4nthers adnate to the middle of the fila-_ 
ments. Capsule inferior, 6-celled, crowned with 
the calix.  % 
Roots creeping, stems bifoliate, very low, producing : a 
single dichotomal flower. 
SPEcIEs. 1, A. canadense. 2. virginieum. 3. sarki 
of this ret aan another 5 indigenous to 
