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CHASMONIA* incisa. 

 Cut-leaved Chasmonia. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Labiat^e. 



CHASMONIA. — Calyx sulcatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore integro, 

 inferiore rotundato (7-) 6-dentato, dentibus spinosis. Corolla ringens, 

 galea emarginata plana, labio 4-lobo. AnthercB lineari-oblongse. Stigmata 

 sequalia. Involucrum 3-partitum, basi calycis affixum, spinosum. — Presl. 

 Flora Sicula 1 . p. xxxvii. 



C. incisa. Presl. 1. c. 



Moluccella spinosa. Linn. sp. pi. 821. Willd. sp. pi. 3. 128. Spreng. 



syst. 2. 745. 

 Molucca spinosa. Dodorns. pempt. 92. 

 Melissa moluccana foetida. Bauh. pin. 229. 



Caulis quadratus, glaber. Folia lo7ige petiolata, inciso-pabnata, spinosa, 

 glabra. Bractea cuique flori tripartita, laciniis spinosis, subulatis, sub- 

 pilosis. Calyces inflati, rigidi, reticulati, tuba sulcata, basi glanduloso, 

 bilabiati; labio superiore dilatato, erecto, inferiore rotundato, radiatim 

 7-dentato : dentibus longe spinosis, incequalibus. Corolla ochroleuca, pilosa, 

 calyce brevior, galea convexd, leviter emarginatd, labio subcuneato, pariter 

 4-lobo. Antherse glabra, discretce. 



The plant from which our drawing of this rare plant 

 was taken, in the Nursery of Messrs. Young, of Epsom, had 

 been raised from seed collected by Mr. Philip Barker Webb. 

 It is a native of Sicily and other parts of the Mediter- 

 ranean ; and is one of the oldest inhabitants of our Gardens, 

 having been introduced, according to the Hortus Kewensis, 

 so long since as 1596. It is a hardy annual, flowering in 

 July and August. 



Stem square, smooth. Leaves on long stalks, cut- 



calyx. 



From ^xcTf^du, to gape wide, in allusion to the yawning mouth of the 



