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globosa, subdidyma, parum obliqua, loculis subeequalibus poro irregulari dehiscentibus. Semina iis A. Orontii 
subsimilia sed majora, cyatho faciei interioris majore profundiore. 
A very remarkable species, as being closely allied to our A. Orontium in 
inflorescence, flowers, and seed, and with that species alone (including its variety 
A. calycinum) forming a distinct section in the genus, but abundantly charac- 
terised as a species by the foliage and capsule. 
Plate XIX. fig. 1, flower; fig. 2, corolla cut open; fig. 3, anther ; fig. 4, style; fig. 5, capsule ; 
fig. 6, side view of the seed; fig. 7, front view of the seed; fig. 8, embryo and albumen; all mag- 
nified. 
136. Mavranpia juncea, sp. n., erecta, glabra, ramis junceis ramosissimis rigidis, foliis paucis 
parvis oblongo-linearibus, pedicellis brevibus oppositis, corolla tubulose palato prominulo piloso.— 
From San Diego to the Bay of Magdalena. 
Habitus Russelie equisetiformis. Caules erecti, elati, crassiusculi, ramulis numerosis oppositis vel ternatim 
verticillatis erectis strictis, supremis paniculatis. Folia opposita vel ternatim verticillata, vix unquam 
semipollicaria, crassa, integerrima, superiora minuta squameeformia. Flores versus apices ramulorum pauci, per 
paria inter se distantia dispositi, vel interdum ternatim verticillati. Pedicelli flexuosi, vix semipollicares, 
Calycis laciniz vix 14 lin. longee, lato-lanceolate, acute, glabra, crasse. Corolle tubus 8 lin. longus, rectus 
et subeequalis, basi leviter gibbus, extus viscidulus; labia brevia, superius erectum, bifidum, inferius patens 
trifidum, palato prominulo at faucem non claudente. Stamina corollam subeequantia, Antherarum loculi 
divergentes. Stylus superne paululum incrassatus, integer. Capsula ovoidea, 3-4 lin. longa, loculis eequalibus 
apice dentibus circa sex dehiscentibus. Semina numerosa, profunde rugosa et tuberculoso-subechinata, iis 
M. Barclayane similia. 
This plant is, at first sight, so very unlike the Maurandie in cultivation, that it 
seems unnatural to associate them in the same genus, but the characters derived 
from the flowers and fruit are the same, and the Maurandia stricta, Hook. et Arn., 
is an intermediate species in habit. The genus altogether is perhaps too closely 
allied to Antirrhinum, in which also very great dissimilarities in habit may be 
observed, as for instance between A. Orontium and A. Asarina. 
VERBENACEX. 
137. Verbena lasiostachys, Link.— Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 156 et 383.—Santa Clara. 
These specimens are certainly identical as to species with Douglas's, referred 
to by Hooker and Arnott, and also with others from the Berlin Garden, where 
the species was originally described. 
138. VERBENA paniculata, Lam.—Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2. p. 117.—San Francisco. 
There is little doubt that this plant, as suggested by Hooker, as well as the 
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