212 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Exacum. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, divided about half way down into 4 

 equal, acute, sim})le segments, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal; 

 tube swelling, the length of the calyx; limb in 4 deep, 

 spreading, equal segments, imbricated in the l)ud. Filam. 

 fi'om the tube of the cor. between the segments of the limb, 

 and much shorter, thread-shaped, nearly equal, erect. 

 Anth. roundish-oblong, of 2 cells. Germ, oval, superior. 

 Style terminal, thread-shaped, a little inclining, as long as 

 the limb, permanent. Stigma capitate, undivided. Capsule 

 filling the tube of the cor. which gradually enlarges with 

 it, elliptical, compressed, of 2 valves with inflexed edges, 

 imperfectly dividing it into 2 cells. Seeds numerous, small, 

 rough, attached to a fixed, or finally separated, double 

 receptacle. 



Herbaceous, smooth, intensely bitter. Leaves simple, entire, 

 and as well as the branches, or Jlower-stalks, opposite. Fl. 

 terminal, generally yellow. 



1. Yi. filiforme. Least Gentianella. 



Leaves sessile. Stem thread-shaped, forked. Flowers on 

 long stalks. 



E. filiforme. J7. 5r. 182. Engl.Bot. vA. t.235. With. 194. Willd 



Sp. PL V. 1. G38. Alt. Hurt. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. 250. Hook. Loud. 



fasc. 2.91. t. 86. " DeCand. Fr. ed. 3. v. 3. 663." 

 Gentiana filiformis. Linn. Sp. PL 335. Huds. 103. Fl. Dan. t. 324. 



Ehrh. Phyt. 43. 

 Centaurium palustre luteum minimum nostras. Raii Syn. 286. 



VailL Par. 32. t.Q.f.3. 



On sandy or turfy bogs. 



In Dorsetshire, Cornwalb Devonshire and Sussex, not very un- 

 common. In Dursey island^ Cork_, Ireland 3 Mr. Blashford. 

 WadePLRar.Hib. 11. 



Annual. July. 



Root small, fibrous. Stem 2 — 4 inches high, erect, round, slender, 

 branched from the bottom, more or less forked. Leaves chiefly 

 radical, lanceolate or spatulate, single-ribbed, not an inch long. 

 Fl. small, yellow, erect, stalked, solitary at the end of each 

 branch. 



The structure of the receptacles appears somewhat different from 

 Mr. Brown's idea of what is strictly proper to Exacum ; but, as 

 Linnaeus observes, there are few genera in which some part or 

 other of the fructification is not various, or liable to exceptions; 

 a principle very judiciously kept in view by our learned country- 

 man in the following genus. 



