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tarj peduncles ; the basilar branch leaves obcordate, or obovate-emar- 

 ginate, sub-cuneate ; upper leaves mostly ovate on short petioles ; 

 stipules deciduous, oblanceolate about twice the length of the petiole, 

 or minute linear lanceolate ; one-sixteenth to one-fourth in length : 

 lamina dry and thin, pale yellowish green, margins entire, veins prom- 

 inent, clothed with a dull, hoary, short pruinose pubesence above, and 

 beneath, a few pellucid dots. 



Flowers unknown. 



Fruit, a membranaceous inflated, three to six-celled, (usually four 

 to five) united capsule, in outline ovate- elliptic, pointed by the rigid 

 styles more or less adjoined, as also are the capsules their whole 

 length, readily and freely dehiscing along the ventral suture, separat- 

 ing from the central axis at the base first, and retained only by the 

 attachment of a pair of fibres from the placental column adherent to 

 the pistilate apex of each valve. Seeds two in each cell, centrally 

 suspended, the upper ascending, black, ovate, pointed, arillate. 



Capsules, solitary, in pairs, verticillate and in panicles on articulated 

 peduncles or pedicels, about half an inch in length ; common peduncle 

 stout, branch-like, about two inches long. 



Our specimens agree in the most essential points with the descrip- 

 tion of the natural order Stapliylaeeoe, in Gray's Genera, but not 

 with De Candolle's tribe. When carefully examined, this plant will 

 probably, with some others, require new genera to be instituted. AVe 

 regret not having complete specimens, in order to make the descrip- 

 tion more complete. 



Teucriiim glandalosum, (Kellogg,) or Glandular Bugle, ok 

 Germander. — Stem suffruticulose, many straight stolons from a 

 knotty crown of the root ; branches whorled below, opposite above, 

 erect, quadrangular, elevated angles truncate-planed ; stem striate 

 minutely glandular, with glistening glands of a golden hue ; one to two 

 feet in height. 



Lower leaves opposite, sessile, .narrow lanceolate, pinnatilid-lobed 

 or remotely divaricate-toothnd, base cuneate three-nerved, triplinerved 

 above. Upper branch and floral leaves lance-linear, sessile three- 

 nerved, rarely a few remote cut divergent teeth, pitted glandular 

 above, densely prominent glandular beneath. 



Peduncles opposite, axillary, solitary, angular, scabrous backwards 

 along the upper angles, declined and ascending, about a third shorter 

 than the leaves. 



Calyx campanulate ; tube somewhat turbinate, resting on a minute 

 ten-nerved capitulum of the peduncle, membranaceous, reticulate. 



