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Genera, I have proved in flora tellur. how dif- 

 ferent is Gardoquia. It is one of the Genera 

 to which I give my own name, and if any one 

 cavils at it I offer a second abridged from 

 Diodontocheilis ! that 1 may not lose the mer- 

 it of my sagacity in ascertaining this Genus. 

 I have already two sp. of it. 



601. Rafinesquia coccinea fl. tell. 751. 

 Cunila ! do Hooker, Melissa! do Spr. Gardo- 

 quia ! hookeri Benth. Don. Lindl. b. reg. 1747. 

 Shrubby smooth, leaves obovi^te sessile suba- 

 cute, peduncles axillary l-3flore — A small 

 shrub of Florida with handsome large scarlet 

 flowers, branches terete sub 4 angular, leaves 

 commonly remote small. 



602. Raf. coccinea var. obtusifolia Raf. 

 differ, branches more 4angular, leaves equal to 

 internodes obtuse one third inch long, flowers 

 scarlet ever one inch long. 



603. Rafinesquia angustifolia Raf. sufi'- 

 ruticose, branches filiform hardly angular,Ieaves 

 sessile smooth oblong or cuneate obtuse crow- 

 ded above, peduncles very short uniflore — in 

 Alabama, smaller shrub still with narrow 

 leaves and smaller flowers rather red than scar- 

 let. Given me as a var. of R. coccinea by Du- 

 rand ; it is very near Gardoquia chilensis in 

 habit, but quite unlike in the calix and flowers. 



604. PILOBLEPHIS Raf. Satureia and 

 Cephalothymus Benth. Quite a peculiar G. 

 discovered by Bartram 60 years ago, unnoticed 

 by all our botanists, altho' in their herbals ! un- 

 til Bentham found it in Banks Herbarium, but 

 he left it with Satureia as a subg. with an im- 

 proper name, mine means ciliated head. It 

 differs as much from Satureia as Pycnanthes 

 does, both by characters and habit. Shrub 



