1747 



GARDOQUIA Hookeri. 



Scarlet Gardoquia. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Labiate, Juss, (^Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 229.) 



GARDOQUIA FL Per. Calyx tubulosus, 13-nervius, subincurvus, ore 

 aequali vel obliquo, dentibus brevibus rectis subaequalibus vel subbilabiatis. Co- 

 rollcB tubus \ongh exsertus, rectus vel incurvus, iiitils niidus ; limbus bilabiatus, 

 labium superius erectum subplanum emarginatum, inferius subpatens, lobis planis 

 medio latiore. Stamina 4, subdidynama, inferioribus longioribus, laxe adscen- 

 dentia, apice subdistantia, superiora subinde sterilia. Filamenta edentula. An- 

 thercB biloculares, loculis distinctis parallelis vel subdivergentibus. Styli lobi 



subffiquales. A che7iia sicca., laevia. Suffrutices fruticesve ramosissimi^foliosi, 



scBpe jjrocumbentes. Flores pulchri, scepiiis coccinei. Bentham Gen. et Sp. 

 Lab. p. 397. 



G. Hookeri ; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis obovatis subintegerrimis basi in petiolum 

 brevem angustatis utrinque viridibus, pedunculis 2-3-floris, calycis glabri 

 subbilabiati labio superiore breve bidentato erecto, fauce intils villis clausa. 

 Bentham I. c. 401. 



Cunila coccinea, Nutt. ex Hooker exot.Jl. 3. t. 163. 



Melissa coccinea, Spreng. syst. 2. 224. 



Gardoquia Hookeri, Don in Siueet. FL Gard. ser.2. t. 271. 



A very pretty half hardy and half shrubby plant, native 

 of Florida according to Nuttall, as quoted by Dr. Hooker, 

 and of South Carolina according to Mr. Don. 



Our specimens were furnished by Mr. Marshall, gar- 

 dener to Mrs. Langley of Thames Ditton, in Oct. 1834. It is a 

 neat, and very desirable plant, easily propagated by cuttings. 



* Don Diego Gardoqui, Minister of Finance under Charles IV. of Spain, re- 

 ceived the compliment of having this beautiful genus named after him, because of 

 his having favoured the South American Expedition of Ruiz and Pavon. 



