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BELOPERONE* oblongata. 



Oblong-leaved Beloperone. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Acanthace^. § Justiciese Gendarusseae Nees. {Introduc- 

 tion to the natural systevi of Botany, p. 233.) 



BELOPERONE. — Calyx prot'unde quinquefidus, laciniis J3equalibus 

 latis V. latiusculis, tubo angusto. Corolla ringens, tubo labioque superiore 

 concavo conicis rectis, inferiore labio trifido cequali. Stamina 2, tubo infra 

 medium inserta. Antherce bilocellatse, locellis muticis v. basi calcai'atis, in 

 connective semisagittato-ovali oblique distantibus altero altiore, in quibus- 

 dam, connectivo magis contracto, subcontiguis altero post alterum oblique 

 sitis. (S^z^rwa subulatum. Ca/JswZa a basi ad medium compresso-unguiculata 



asperma, apice tetrasperma. Semina colorata. Inflorescentia : spiese 



axillares terminalesque, breves, secundce. Flores alterni, bracteis bracteolis- 

 que cEqualibus longis angustis. Corollae speciosce, coccinece. Nees ab 

 Esenbeck in Wallich pi. as. rar. 3. 102. 



B, oblongata; spicis axillaribus, bracteis bracteolis foliisque lanceolatis, 



antheris basi calcaratis. Nees I. c. 

 Justicia oblongata. Link et Otto ic. pl. select, p. 115. t. 54. Willd. sp. 



pi. ed. 2. 1. 381. 



Frutex 2-3-pedes altus, ramis teretibus ad geniculos parum tumidis. Folia 

 brevipetiolata, lanceolata, acuminata, glabra, atroviridia. Spicai axillares, 

 brevi pedunculatce, 2-'3-JiorcE, foliis breviores. Bractese lineares, acu- 

 minates, foliacece, calyce longiores. Bracteolse conformes, sed angus- 

 tiores et breviores. Calyx cequalis, 5-partitus, tubo brevissimo subcar- 

 tilagineo : laciniis linear i-layiceolatis, pungentibus, apice pubescentibus. Co- 

 rolla extus pubescens, H unciam longa, roseo-purpurea, tubo conico recto, 

 limbo bilabiato ; labium superius rectum, concavum, integerrimum, inferius 

 trifidum, cequale venis elevatis pictum. Stamina 2, rudimentis nullis sfe- 

 rilium ; filamenta linearia ; antheraj connectivo obcuneato membranaceo ob- 

 liquo, loculis incequalibus, altero breviore mutico, altero longiore basi brevi- 

 calcarato. 



A pretty species of hothouse plant, native of the Brazils, 

 whence it was originally introduced into Prussia. Our 



* So called from /3s A«?, an arrow, and tte^ov*), a strap or band; in allusion 

 to the arrow-shaped band which holds together the two cells of the anther. 



