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Lobeliacece. 

 PARIS IIELLA, Nov. Gen. Cyphicarum. 



Calyx 5-fi(lus, tubo campanulato adnato lobis spatlmlatis foliaceis 

 breviore. Corolla subrotata, calyce brevior, profunde fere aqiialiter 

 5-fida. Stamiua "), a corolla libera : filamenta (basi tantum discre ta) 

 in tubum gracilem apiee iiiflexum connata : antlierai libera?, nudoc, 

 ovales, loculis introrsurn debiscentibus. Ovarium biloculare, raulti- 



* * Regione orlentali indigenaj, albiflorcc. 



■»- Fructus pi. m. triangularis, loculis sterilibus fertili niinoribus ad angulam 



obtusiorem : corollae tubus gracilis fauce limboque subasquilongus. 



V. ciiENOPODiFOLiA, DC. — V. iriquetra, Shuttlewortli in Flora, 18.37, 211, t. 3. 

 V. Fwjopyrum, \Yalp. Kopert. ii 527. Fedia chenopodifolia, Pursli, Fl. ii. 727. 

 F. Fagopyrum, Torr. & Gra}^ Fl. ii. 51. Shuttlewortli, having Virginian speci- 

 mens of tliis species, suspected it to be the plant briefly described by PursIi. 

 Having examined the original in the Shcrardian herbarium, I can confirm this 

 judgment. 



V. AMARELLA, Krok, Monogr. Valer. 55, t. 2, f. 14. Fedia amarella, Lind- 

 heimer, Engelm. in PI. Lindh. ii. 217. Texas ; named from a peculiar bitterness 

 of the herbage, which is wanting in the associated species, according to Lind- 

 heimer. A saccate gibbosity, at the base of the throat of the corolla, is in 

 some flowers almost spur like. 



■t- -t- Fructus oblongo- sen ovato-tetragonus, antice infer loculos steriles con- 

 tiguos fertili non latiores nee majores sulcatus. 



V. STENOCARPA, Krok, ]\Ionogr. Fedia stenocarpa, Engelm. 



V. RADiATA, Dufresne, non DC. 

 t- -I- -t- Fructus loculi steriles ampliati aut inflati aut valde divergentes fertili 



multo majores. 



V. WooDSiANA, Walp., Krok, 1. c. Fedia Woodsiann, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 52. 



Var UMHiLiCATA. Fructus maturus loculis sterilibus introrsis confluentibus 

 vesiculosis centro profunde umbilicatis, ore subrotundo. — 1'^. uinbilicatn, Krok. 

 Fedia uinhilicata , SuUiv. /•'. radiata, vur. umbiliaita. Porter in Am. Nat. vi. .387, 

 t. 108. 



Var. PATEi.i.ARiA. Fructus quasi meniscoideus, basi apiceque emarginatus, 

 loculis sterilibus maximc divergentibus demum applanatis alasformibus nunc 

 niarginibus pi. ni involutis. — T". paliUaria, Krok. Fedia patellaria, Sulliv. 

 F. radi(ita_ vnr. piildlaria, Porter, I.e. o37, t. lOG. 



§ 2. SiriioxELLA, Krok. — Fedia § Si/ihonella, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 50. Species 2 



Arkansana;. 



V. LONGiFLORA, Widp. Corollaj tubo filiformi purpurasccnte lobis albis 3-4- 

 plo longiori juxta basim gibbcre parvo instructo; fructus loculo fertili apice 

 lato-obtuso. — Fedia loxf/i/lora, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 



T. Klttali.ii, Walp. Corolla) albas tubo lobis diiplo longiori versus medium 

 gibbero parvo instructo ; fructus loculo fertili angusto-apiculato. — Fedia Nul- 

 tallii, Torr & Gray, 1. c. 



