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rectus diiuidiiun albuinhiis longitudinem subœquans 

 vel superans. ColyLedones foliaceae. Radicula conspi- 

 picua ad basim fructus spectans. Herba? aiinuœ pe- 

 rennes vel basi sufFruticosœ humiles, frutices alte 

 scandenles (in Cobœa) vel arbores (in C an tua). Pu- 

 bes in summilatibus sœpissime viscosa. Folia infirma 

 ssepe opposila , vaginautia , snprema vel interdnra. 

 omnia alterna r intégra, dentata vel pinnatim pal ma- 

 timqne dissecta. Inllorescenlia termiualis , cymosa, 

 cenlrifuga, rarius canle excnrrenle lateralis, in Cobœa 

 nt videlur rêvera Lateralis. Flores nunc dissiti ebrac- 

 teati solitarii vel in cymas dicbotomas paiiiculasve 

 disposai, nunc in capitula condensata, bracteis seu 

 foliis lloralibus suiFiiIû. Pedicellt ultimi ehracteati vel 

 in Loeselia pluribracteatL Corollae ex purpuieo in 

 violaceum, cœruleuin et albidum abe unies , rarius 

 flavœ, coccineœ vel aurantiacœ. Rth. in DC. prodi*. 

 IX. p. 302. 



258. PHLOX Linn. gen. n. 214. 



Schkuhr t. XXXVUL — Gœrtn. I p. 299. t. LXL — 

 EndL gen. n. 3819. 



Caîyx pyramidato-campanulatus 5 fidus. Corollahy- 

 pocraterimorpha, tubo elongato, lirabo laciniis obo- 

 vatis orbicnlatisve œqnalibus. Stamina tubo valde 

 ineequaliter inserla, inclusa. Discus brevis tenuis cu- 

 puliformis. Ovarium oblongum vel ovoideum. Ovula 

 in loculis solilaria vel rarius duo superposita. Cap- 

 sula ovoidea. Semina ovoidea exalata vel angustissime 



