66 ON THE GENUS TRIGUERA. 
Ill. So. Am. Plants, vol. ii. pl. 53). The following is offered as an 
emended character of the genus from my observations upon the speci- 
men above referred to. 
TRIGUERA, Cav. Char. emend.—Calyx profunde 5-partitus, submem- 
branaceus, persistens, laciniis subzequalibus, lanceolatis. Corolla 
campanulata, limbo 5-lobo obliquo, lobis inzqualibus, brevibus, 
obtusis, mucronulatis, superiori breviori reflexo, 2 inferioribus erecti- 
oribus, æstivatione induplicato-valvata. Stamina 5, inclusa ; fila- 
menta brevia, glabra, imo in urceolam mellifluam liberam annularem 
e basi coroll: ortam coalita ; anthere magne, conniventes, oblong, 
inferiori paulo minori, basi cordate, imo dorsi affixee, 2-loculares, 
apice 2-cornutz, introrsz, loculis parallelis adnatis, primum poris 
geminis apiealibus, demum rimis longitudinalibus intus dehiscentibus. 
Ovarium subglobosum, 2-loculare, pauci-ovulatum, ovulis dissepi- 
mento placentifero utrinque adnatis. Stylus simplex, gracilis, per- 
sistens. Stigma parvum, obtusum, globoso-clavatum, cavum. Bacca 
sicca, 2-locularis, calyce aucto membranaceo suffulta, cortice mem- 
ranaceo, dissepimento tenuissimo, subobliterato. Semina 4 
magna, compressa, reniformia, hilo in sinu profundo laterale : d 
favosa: embryo intra albumen carnosum spiraliter curvatus, teres, 
radicula ad angulum basalem spectante, hilo laterali evitante, coty/e- 
donibus semiteretibus sublongiore.—Herbee Hispanice annue narco- 
(e e muscum redolentes, folia alterna, sessilia, subdecurrentia, 
obovata, sinuato-dentata, vel integra; pedunculus extra-acillaris, 2- 
fidus, 2-florus, pedicelli graciles, articulati, nutantes, corolla superne 
ceerulescens, imo albescens, et radiis 5 albidis notata. 
l. Triguera ambrosaica, Cav. Diss. 2. App. 2. tab. A. Triguera 
baccata, Gmelin, Syst. vol. i. p. 338. Verbascum Osbeckii, Linn. 
Sp. pl. 255. Rdb. Cent. vol. v. tab. 17, fig. 52. Tournef. Itin. vol. ii. 
p. 83. cum tcon.—Annua, caule sulcato, subalato, glabro ; foliis 
radicalibus, integris, glabris, caulinisque obovatis, sessilibus, imo 
euneato integro in angulis alatis decurrentibus, hinc grosse ser- 
ratis, apice obtusiusculis, glauco-viridibus, utrinque glabris, mar- 
gine ciliatis; pedunculo solitario, lateraliter sub-axillari, bifido, 
pedicellis e glandulis totidem cupuliformibus articulatis, calyceque 
dense lanato-pilosis ; corolla purpureo-violacea, glabra, lobis 
rotundatis extus pilosis, urceolo staminifero brevi, ovarium dimidio 
includente.— Hispania, Prov. Andalusise.—v. s. in herd. cl. Boissier. 
