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Ordo CLIII. SCROPflULARINAE R. Br. 



(Endlich. Gener. plantar. p. 670. — Meisn. Gener. plantar. vascular. I. 304. 



TI. 214. — G. Don, General syst. of gard. and bot IV. 500. cum VERBASGINTS 



N. ab E. — G. Don 1. c. 488.) 



Tribus I. VERBASCEAE Bth. Scrophular. Indic. 16. — 



Endl. 1. c. 



CoroUa lubo abbreviato v. subgloboso, limbo explariato quadri-quin- 

 quefldo v. bilabiato non ringente. Stamina fertilia 2 — 5, saepius declinata. 

 Antherae approximatae v. cohaerentes, nunc uniloculares, nunc subbilo- 

 culares, loculis divaricatis confluentibus. Capsula bivalvis septicide de- 

 hiscens, valvulis saepe bifldis, dissepimento e marginibus valvularum 

 inflexis duplicato solubili. Semina nuda. 



3878. VERBASCrM Linn. 

 (Linn. Gener. plant. 245. — Meisn. Gener. plant. vascul. I. 306. II. 217. — Spr. Syst. 

 veget. I. 618. — Dietr. Synops. plant. I. 658. — G. Don, General syst. of gard. and 



bot. IV. 488.) 

 Divisio I. — Foliis superioribus decurrenlibus. 

 §. 1. Folia penitus a folio ad folium decurrentia. 



1. V. THAPSUS Linn, Flor. Suecic. 69., Spec. plant. 252. — Koch, Synops. fl. Germ. 

 (ed. 1.) 510. — Bth. Scrophular. Indic. 16. — Rchb. Flor. excurs. 385. no. 2618. — 

 Smith, Engl. bot. t. 549. — Oed. Flor. Danic. t. 631. — Svensk bot. t. 79. — 

 Schkuhr, Hndbch. I. 136. t. 42. - Woodv. Med. bot. I. 342. t. 125. — G. Don I. c. 

 no. 1. — Bertoloni, Flora Italiana 11. 570. f — Foll. crenatis tomentosis , tomento 

 lutescente, omnib. a folio ad folium decurrentib.; racemo subsolitario ; pedicellis 

 florigeris calyce breviorib.; corollis rotatis; filamentis albo-lanatis, duobus lon- 

 giorib. glabris v. superne parce pilosis , anthera sua hinc longe decurrente ses- 

 qui v. duplo longioribus. </ — Tri-octopedale strictum, dense sed lenue tomen- 

 tosum pallide virens. Racemus subclavatus. — A sequente differt florib. multo 

 majorib. et explanatis. — V. thapsiforme Schrad. Monogr. I. 21. — Rchb. I. c. no. 

 2616.*) — r. cuspidatum Schrad. I. c. 23. t. 1. fig. 1.**) — Rchb. I. c. no. 2617. — 

 G. Don 1. c. no. 6. — V. Indicum Wall. in Rxb. Fl. Ind. II. 236. - Wall. Cat. no. 

 2630. — Nees ab Esenb. in Transact. of the Linn. Soc. XVII. 79. (?)***) — V.lych- 



*) V. THAPSIFORME Schrad. l. c. — Rchb. l. c. - G. Don l. c. 489. no. 3. - Foll. 

 decurrentib. ovalib., superiorib. utrinq. acutis crenatis crasse tomentosis; ra- 

 cemo spicato ; corollae rotatae laciniis obovato-rotundatis ; antheris binis oblon— 

 gis. cf — V. Thapsus Blacliw. Herb. t. 502? — V. bracteatum Kickx niss. — V. 

 Kickxianum Dumort. Florul. Belgic. prodr. 38. — V. densiflorum Pollin. Flor. 

 Veron. I. 243. — In Germania media, ad Rhenum, in Ilungaria et in Italia. 



-**) V. CUSPIDATUM Schrad. l. c. — Rchb. l. c. — FoU. decurrentib. crenulatis 

 tomentosis, superiorib. cuspidatis ; racemi fasciculis remotiusculis ; antheris dua- 

 bus oblongis. </ — Flor. Danic. t. 1810. — In Austria, Hungaria et in Saxonia. 



***) V. INDICUM Wall. l. c. — G. Don l. c. no. 2. — Foll. decurrentib. elliptico- 

 oblongis crenatis undulatis tomentoso -lanatis ; racemo spicato denso; bracteis 

 calycibq. lanatis cuspidatis, fruclii longiorib.; corollae subrotatae laciniis sub- 

 rotundis; antheris subaequalibus. ^ — Crescit in India orientali in Emodo monte 

 ad Gossain-Than in Nepalia. — A V. Thapsus certe distinctum dicitur. 



