306 Dr. Smith's Characters of Poiretia. 



smooth and shining above; opaque and minutely hairy beneath, 

 with a strong mid-rib ; reticulated on both sides with numerous 

 veins. Stipulas very small, lanceolate, erect. Flower-stalks about 

 the upper parts of the branches, half an inch or more in length, 

 axillary, generally in pairs from one common, short, bracteated 

 base, and each bearing one purplish flower, with a pair of very 

 small bracteas at the base of its calyx. The flower-stalks, brac- 

 teas and calyx are clothed with silky rusty hairs; the upper lip 

 of the latter is very broad, the segments of the lower lip short. 

 Stamens as in the former species. Germen roundish, smooth. 

 Stigma obtuse. 



Norwich, March 30, 180&, 



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