DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA, 283 
MELAMPY’RUM. Tourn, 78. Garin. 53. 
Car. Cup 1 leaf, tubular, with 4 shallow clefts. Segments 
slender, permanent. si. 
Bross. 1 petal, gaping. Tube oblong, bent back. Border 
comprsseet pper lip helmet-shaped, compressed, 
notched at the end ; Jateral margins bent back. Lower 
Zp flat, upright, as long as the upper, with 3, shallow 
Peper, blunt, marked with 2 projections in the 
middle. ' ' 
Sram. Filaments 4,2 long and 2 short, awl-shapeé |, crooked, 
concealed under the upper lip. Anthers o long. 
Pisr. Germen tapi to a point. Style simple, agreeing 
in length and situation with the stamens. Summit blunt. 
8. Vess.” Capsule oblor , oblique, tapering to a point, 
| compressed ; upper edge » convex, lower sige Straight ; 
cells 2, valves 2, partition opposite to the valves, open- 
ging at the upper seam. | 
Speps 2, egg-shaped, bulging, bordered at the base. 
LATHRA’A. Tourn: 424, Clandestina. Gertn. 52. 
Cat. Cup 1 leaf, bell-shaped, straight. Mouth with 4 
> deep cer : — 
Loss..1 petal, gaping. Tule longer than the cup, Bor- 
der gaping, bellying. Upper lip concave, helmet. 
shaped, broad, with a narrow hooked top. Lower lip 
smaller, reflected, blunt, with 3 clefts. “9 
Nectary a gland notched at the end, depressed on 
each side, very short, situated upon the receptacle of 
the flower, at one corner of the germen. - 
Stam. Filaments 4, awl-shaped, as long as the blossom, 
concealed under the upper lip. Anthers blunt, depress- 
ed, approaching. 
Pisr. Germen globular, compressed. Style thread-shaped, 
> Seog. in length and situation with the stamens, 
iElopped, nodding, = 
S. Vess. Capsule roundish, blunt, but furnished with a 
_ small point, with 1 cell, and 2 elastic valves, surrounded 
_ by the cup, which is large and i oge 2 
| SEEDs few, globular, fixed to the middle of the valves, 
Oss. On account of its nectariferous gland, it approaches 
Hear to the Orobanche. Liny. ad, 
