73 DIDYNAMIA-GYMNOSPERMIA. 



diora pilosula, suhtus pubescentia, et exquisite mul- 

 tinervia, inferiora petiolata, superiora sessilia. Race- 

 mus terminalis, tres-sex pollices longus, spurie verti- 

 cillatus, sive quovis verticillo facto e corymbulis duo- 

 bus , oppositis, brevissime pedunculatis , quorum imi 

 interdum pedunculo paulo longiore fulciuntur , verti- 

 cillis supremis approximatis, reliquis inter se parumper 

 remotis. Folia floralia bracteiformia, verticillum aequan- 

 tia, inferiora cordato-ovata, vix acuta, crenata, supe- 

 riora ovata, aut ovato-lanceolata , acuminata, integer- 

 rima, omnia exquisite multinervia, pubescentia, ciliata. 

 Bracteolae lanceolats , acuminatas, calycibus sequales , 

 exquisite tri-quinquenerviae, pubescentes, ciliatse, mar- 

 gine albido-membranaceae. Tum hae, tum bracteae saepe 

 apice purpureo-caeruleae. Calyx tubulosus, quatuor-quin- 

 que lineas longus , pubescens , profunde usque ad di- 

 rnidium, aut infra dimidium in lacinias sectus, lacini^s 

 lanceolato-linearibus, acuminato-aristulatis , exquisite 

 trinerviis , margine albido-membranaceis. Corolla laete 

 rosea, extus pubescens, calyce paulo longior, tubo, et 

 fauce inclusis, labio superiore obtuse bilobo, inferiore 

 trifido , laciniis obtusis, lateralibus plano-patentibus , 

 media grandiore, et paulo productiore, concava , cre- 

 nata. Nuculae insigniter granulatae , maturitate fusc». 

 Herba grate odora. Pubescentia omnis eglandulosa. 

 6. Nepeta tuherosa: napulis radicalibus fusiformibus, pro- 

 liferis, articulato-nodosis; caule erecto, undiqne lanu- 

 ginoso; foliis cordato-oblongis, lanceolatisve, crenatis, 

 basi dentatis, subtus tomentosis; bracteis, bracteolisque 

 ovatis, reticulato-venosis , coloratis, calycibusque pu- 

 bescenti-glandulosis. 



N. tuberosa Sp.pl. p. 798. Benth. Lah.p. 473- Guss. Cat. 

 pl. in Boccadifal. ann.iS2.i.p. 43.;,* et Fl. Sic. prodr.2.. 

 p. 81.,* et Sup. 2..p. 1^1.* et Syn. 2..p. 64-* Desf. Atl.a.. 

 p. 10. herb. ex Guss. Reich. Cent. 5. p. 23. tah. ^<)' 

 ftg. 63o. 



N. hirsuta Jan. El. p. 9. n. 6.* non Lln. 



N. tuberosa violacea spicata min. hisp. Barrel. Ic. 6oa. 



N. tuberosa, spicata, purpurea Hispanica Bocc.Mus. di 

 piant. p. 44- ^^^- 36. Barrel. Ic. ii3r. 



Menthastrum humile, flore dilute caeruleo, radice tube- 

 rosa Triumf. Cup. Hort. Cath. p. 1^3. 



Cataria Lusitanica, erecta, spicata, Betonicae folio, tu- 

 berosa radice Hort. Rom, 3. tab. 81. 

 Ital. Bctunicu tuberoici. 



