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SPHACEL^* campanulata. 

 Campanulate Sphacele. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Labiate Jussieu. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 239.) 



SPHACELE Bentham. — Calyx campanulatus, suhsequalis, 13-15-nervius, 

 venosus, 5-dentatus, intus fauce nuda. Corolla tubo exserto, fauce sub- 

 inflata, bilabiata, labiis subaequalibus, superiori erecto bifido vel emarginato 

 subplano, inferiori patente trifido. Stamina 4, sub labio superiori adscen- 

 dentia. Antherce biloculares, loculis linearibus divergentibus. Stylus apice 

 subaequaliter bifidus. Achenia sicca, Isevia. — Benth. in hot. mag.fol. 2993. 



S. campanulata ; ramis cano-pubescentibus, foliis subsessilibus oblongis basi 

 angustatis subtiis cano-tomentosis, axillis utrinque unifloris, corollis cam- 

 panulatis. Bentham MSS. 

 S. campanulata. Bentham in hot. reg.fol. 1289. in textu. 



Frutex ramis divaricatis, subteretibus, junioribus cano-tomentosis. Folia 

 parva, oblonga v. oblongo-linearia, obtusa, crenata, rugosa, basi in petiolum, 

 brevem angustata ; fioralia calyce breviora. Flores subsecundi, oppositi, 

 breviter pedicellati. Calyx campanulatus, glaber, venosus, dentibus sub- 

 cequalibus acutis. Corolla campanulata, calyce vix duplb longior, glabra, 

 pallide coerulea, fauce valde inflatd, limbi lobis brevibus suberectis, labio 

 superiors bifdo, inferiore 3-fdo, lobo medio emarginato. Bentham MSS. 



This shrub is a native of Chile, where it is probably far 

 from uncommon. At what period it was first introduced to 

 Europe, is uncertain. The plant from which our drawing 

 was taken had been raised in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, from seeds collected by Mr. M'Rae near 

 Valparaiso, in 1825 ; but we have in our possession a cul- 

 tivated specimen, from the herbarium of the late Mr. James 

 Down, of Cambridge, which marks its presence in England 

 at least twenty years ago. 



* 2^«xe?, or <r(peix.iXo?, literally gangrene, or mortification, is a name that 

 was sometimes given by the Greeks to the Sage, apparently because of the 

 galls, or tumours, so common upon the species best known to them, S. 

 pomifera. This species is still called (px<rx.o^n>^io', in modern Greek ; a seeming 

 corruption of c-:pxxofiyiXio6, 



