TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Hesperis. 207 

 339. HESPERIS. Dame's-violet. 



Linn. Gen. 340. Juss. 238. FL Br.7\\. Camp. ed. 4. 108. Br. 

 biAiLH.Kew.v.A. 122. DeCaml. Sijst.v. 2.446. Tourn. l. 108. 

 Lam. t. 5G4./. 1. 



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

 overlaying each other at the upper part, separating first 

 at the bottom, deciduous ; 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 ba;ie in- 

 ternally. Anth. linear, recurved. Genu, quadrangular, 

 linear, the length of the calyx. S/i/le scarcely any. Stig- 

 77ia nearly sessile, of 2 closely converging, erect, simple, 

 obtuse, downy lobes, permanent, unchanged. Pod li- 

 near, more or less accurately quadrangular, .s^triated, pro- 

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

 the length of the meujbranous ]:)artition. Seeds in a*sin- 



. gle row, pendulous, oblong, obscureU' triangular, not bor- 

 dered ; cotyledons fiat, incumbent. 



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

 ing, dow-ny or smooth. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, tooth- 

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

 cinate. Puhesceiiee gQuen\\\y scnitcved luid sim})le ; partly 

 forked and glandular. /''/. corymbose, purplish, white, 

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

 evening. Pods long and slender. 



I. H. inatronalis. Common Dame's-violet. 



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

 lanceolate, toothed. Stem u})right, slightly branched. 

 Pods smooth, irregularly tumid, C(}uilaleral, ne;nly erect. 



H. matronalis. Linn. Sp. PI. 927. mild. v. 3. .•■)31 . Br. in Jit. //. 



Kew. V.4.] 22. DeCand. Sjjsf. v. 2. 4.")(). Hook. Scot. 202. 

 H.inodora. Linn. Sp. PL 927. lVilld.v.3.:)3l.Huds.2HH. With. 



.-)S(i. FL Br. 711. Comp. ed. 4.113. EngL Bot. v.W. t. '/W 1 . /•/. 



Dan. t. 924. Jacq. Auatr. /.347. 



II. n. 448. nalLnisf.r.\.\<)?. 



H. sylveslris inodora. Dill, in Hair Sun. 2!)3. Bupj). Jen. ed. IlalL 



7H.t.\. 

 11. |)iiniionica inodora. lianli. I list. v. 2. H7'(^.f. 

 U. terliu. Clus. Hint. v. 1. 29/./ 

 11. altera pannonica, inodora sylvcstris. (Jlus. runn:X\U.J'.'SM^. 



