H^ TETR ANDRI A-MONOG YNI A . 



ramosns, r.imis alternis , strictis , aut patRntiusrtili^ » 

 Folia ima hroviora , vorticillato-quaterna , lanceolata , 

 reliqua verticillato-sena , linearia , angustissima , lon- 

 gitudine in<'efjualia ; omnia margine ciliolato-aspera , 

 et revoluta , apice mucronulata . Spica solitaria , ter- 

 minalis cauli , et ramis, quae terminalis cauli longior, 

 Uni-tripollicaris , relirjuis proportione brevioribus , rs- 

 terum tetragona , quadrifariam imbricata , floribus ex 

 adverso binis, quorum unusquisque tribracteatus. Bra- 

 ctearum conjugationes opposits , inferiores cum supe- 

 rioribus successive cruciats . Bracteae lanceolatae , acu- 

 minatfB, carinato-canaliculatcB, dorso virides , lateribus 

 mombranaceae , albs , nervo carinali , margineque ci- 

 liolato-scabrse , florem solitarium fere occultantes , in- 

 termedia, sive externa paulo majore, reliquis duabus 

 inter se oppositis , arcte ovarium amplectentibus , ca- 

 lycem simubantibus . Gorolla tenuis, biteola, tubo fili- 

 formi, limbo brevissimo, quadrifido . Stamina in fauce 

 tubi . Stibis tubo brevior . Achenium pyriformi-oblon- 

 gum,obtusum, corona nulla, glabrum , quadrisulcum , 

 sulcis dorsabbus tenuissimis , lateralibus profundiori- 

 bus , arefactione facile secedens in acbeniola duo , 

 hinc convexa , inde plana . 



i. CRtTciANELLA monspeUaca : caule decumbente, ascen- 

 dente ; fobis imis verticillato-quaternis , obovato-spa- 

 tluxlatis, reliquis subsenis, lanceolato-linearibus , lan- 

 rcolatisque ; spica gracib , tetragona ; coroUa bracteis 

 longiore , Laciniis corollinis arista tortuosa terminatis . 



C. monspeliaca Sp. pl. i58. Sihth. et Smith. Fl. Grxc. 

 prod. i.p. qS., et Fl. Gnvr. a. p. 3i. tah. i^o. All. Fl. 

 Fed. j.p. 10. n. 43. Te>}. Fl. Nap. S. p. ^5. , et Sjll. 

 p. 70. n. 4. Moris. Stirp. Sard. elench. fasc. i. p. aS.* 

 De Cand.Fl.Franc.^. par.J.p.^']. n.35^'j. Reichenh. 

 FL Germ. exciirs. ^. p. :2o4- n. laSy. Host. Fl. Austr. i. 

 p. ao8. 



C. latifolia Ten. Fl. Nap. 3. p. 144., et Syll. p. 70. n. 3. 

 Guss. Fl. Sic. prod. 1. p.i^i.* Ah Ucr. Hort. Panorm. 

 p.13.. CoU.Herh.Ped.S.p.1^6. Besf.FLAtLi.p.i^ii. 

 Reichenh. FL Germ. exc a. p. ao^. n. i2,36. Host. FL 

 Austr. 1. p. 207. 

 C. Latifolia J spicata De Cand. Prod. 4- P- 586. 

 Rubia spicata Inip. Hist.nat. ed. Ven. Uh.nd. p.656. fig. 

 R. spicata cretica Clus. Hist. pL Uh. V. p. CLXXIJ. fig. 

 R.. miiior spi(-ata BarreL Ic. 520. 

 R. spicata latifolia Imper. liarreL Ic. 549. 



