TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Hesperis. 207 

 330. HESPERIS. Dame's-violet. 



Linn. Gen. 3 10. Jnss. 238. Fl. Br. /1 1. Comp. ed. 4. 108. Br. 

 in Ait. IL Kcw.vA.V12. DeCand. Syst.v.2.446. Tourn. /.108. 

 iajH. /. 564./. 1. 



Col. closely converging; leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 

 overlaying each other at the upper part, separating first 

 at the bottom, deciclnous ; 2 opposite ones protuberant 

 at the base. Pet. obovate, obtuse, or slightly notched, 

 obliquely spreading ; claws linear, channelled, erect, the 

 length of the calyx. Filam. thread-shaped, erect, simple, 

 unconnected ; the 2 shorter with a gland at their base in- 

 ternally. Antli. linear, recurved. Germ, quadrangular, 

 linear, the length of the calyx. Style scarcely any. Stig- 

 ma nearly sessile, of 'J closely converging, erect, simple, 

 obtuse, tlowny lobes, permanent, uncluuiged. Pod li- 

 near, more or less accurately quadrangular, striated, pro- 

 tuberant from the seeds ; valves linear, undulated, acute, 

 the length of the membranous partition. Seeds in a sin- 

 gle row, pendulous, oblong, obscurely triangular, not bor- 

 dered ; cotyledons flat, incumbent. 



Herbaceous, with fibrous roots. Stem round, erect or spread- 

 ing, downy or smooth. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, tooth- 

 ed, finely hairy, rarely entire ; in some sinuated, or run- 

 cinate. Pubescence generally scattered and simple; partly 

 forked and glandular. Fl. corymbose, purplish, white, 

 or brownish ; powerfully scented, for the most part, in an 

 evenincj. Pods lono; and slender. 



] . H. matrojialis . Common Dame's-violet. 



Partial flower-stalks the length of the calyx. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, toothed. Stem upright, slightly branched. 

 Pods smooth, irregularly tumid, equilateral, nearly erect. 



H. matronalis. Linn. Sp. PI. 927. Willd. v. 3. 53 1 . Br. in Ait. H. 



Kew. V. 4. 122. DeCand. Sijst. v. 2.450. Hook.Scot.202. 

 H.inodora. Linn. Sp. PL 927. M'llld. v.3.r)3\. Huds. 238. With. 



586. Fl.Br.7\\. Comp. ed. 4.1 \3. Engl. Bot.v. \\. t.73l. Fl. 



Dan. t. 924. Jacq. Austr. t. 347. 

 H. n.448. Hall. Hist. V. I. 195. 

 H. sylvestris inodora. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 293. Rupp.Jen. ed.Hall. 



78. M. 

 H . pannonica inodora. Bavh. Hist. v. 2. 878./. 

 H. tenia. Chts. Hist. v. 1 . 297./. 

 H. altera pannonica, inodora sylvestris. Clus. Pann, 335./. 336. 



