the Herbarium of Professor Pallas. 261 
This new addition to the Genus Phelipea of Tournefort, again 
re-established by Desfontaines from his MSS. and the original 
drawing of Aubriet in the Museum of Natural. History at Paris, 
and confirmed by the authority of Jussieu, throws considerable 
light upon the character of that curious genus; and is the more 
interesting, that no specimens of the Rhelipea Tournefortii now 
remain in his Herbarium, or are known to exist in any other 
collection. inti 
The specimens of Phelipea foliata in the Pallasian collection 
rise from a short scaly root a little fibrous below, to from ten to 
eighteen inches in height; the stems striated anda little flexuose, 
leafy towards the base, but naked a considerable way below the 
flower. The specimens from Caucasus, when magnified, appear 
a little villose ; those from Tauria are shining, and without any 
sort of pubescence. ' The calyx is bilabiate, with the upper lip 
three-cleft, the divisions approaching each other and a little 
-incurved ; the under lip is deeply two-parted, with the divisions 
more obtuse and longer than in the upper lip. The tube of the 
corolla is curved, the limb bilabiate with the upper lip two- 
parted, the divisions nearly oval, and the lower lip three-parted 
and considerably longer. The filaments are broad, compressed 
and approaching in pairs, two of them considerably shorter, and 
are inserted in the tube of the corolla. The anthers are large, 
with two cells, and of a shape nearly resembling a heart inverted 
with a double point. The style is round and incurved ; the stigma 
very large, and nearly hemispherical. The capsule is oval, with 
the seeds affixed to four fleshy branched receptacles adhering 
longitudinally to its sides, and ramifying throughout the whole 
of its interior, but without appearing to unite with one another. 
The seeds are very small, nearly oval, shining, and exceedingly 
numerous, covering every lobe and sinus of the receptacles. - 
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