96 DICOTYL. — COROLLIFLORAE 



quepartitus, lobis lineari- lanceolatis, subaeqnalibus; corolla 

 tubo cyliudraceo vel infundibiliformi, limbo rotunde inaequa- 

 literque quinquilobo, fauce ampliata, nuda; fiiKmina tiibo co- 

 rollino inserta, filamentis inaequalibus, declinatis, superne 

 liberis, antheris dorso affixis; ovarium quadrilobum; stylus 

 simplex, plerumque totus vel a basi ad niedium pilosus; sti- 

 yma plns minus bilobiim; nucidae quatuor fundo calycis af- 

 fixae, basi imperforatae, ovatae vel turbinatae, rugosae, sca- 

 brae, coriaceae. Frutices vel herbae; folia alterna, integra, 

 saepius scabra. 



Endl. Gen. Pl. pay. 647. n. 3757.— DC. Prodr. 10. pa- 

 yina 13. — Lin. Gen. 191. — Gaertn. De Frnct. et Semin. 1. 

 pay. 326. tah. 67.—Bert. Fl. If. 2. jmy. 340.— Guss. Syn. 

 Fl. Sic. 1. pay. 230. — Parl. Fl. Ital. cont. da T. Caruel 

 vol. 6. pay. 924. — Moris Fl. Sard. 3. pay. 124. — Torn. 

 Fl. Sic. pay. 397. 



I. E. ambiguum. — Flores distichi, secundi, sursum versi et 

 dispositi in racemo composito, terminali, patente, laxiusculo, 

 foliato, hispidissimo, racemis partialibus pedunculatis, initio 

 brevibus, apice recurvis, compactis et fere conglobatis, po- 

 stea modice elongatis, recurviusculis laxioribusque; scapus e- 

 longatus, bicostatus, hispidissimus, villis patentibus, ramosus; 

 pedicelli calyce multo breviores; hracteolae sub quovis pedi- 

 cello lineares; cahjx tubulosus, hispidus, quinquepartitus, se- 

 gmentis angustis, lanceolatis vel lanceol;'to-linearibus, acu- 

 tis; corolla parva, infundibiliformis, limbo oblique secto, ca- 

 lyci subaequalis, pallide coerulea, extus hispida; stamina co- 

 rolla longiora; ovarium generis; sti/his filifnrmis, glaber, 

 stamina excedens; nuces quatuor, parvae, incurvae, echinatae, 

 maturae nigrescentes; caulis teres, erectus, pedali-sesquipe- 

 dalis, nunc a basi, nunc superne tantum ramosus, ramis pa- 

 tulis, hispidus, cicatricibus foliorum delapsorum in imo no- 

 tatus; folia sparsa, lanceolata, acuminata, basi attenuata, 

 integerrima, supra viridia, lineata subtusve pallidiora, alter- 

 ne multinervia, omnia patentia, hispida, floralla ad basim 

 rocemorum partialium lanceolata vel lanceolato - linearia, a- 

 cuminata; radix ramosa, fibris numerosis vestita. 



Floret Junio. %.. 



Aetnae, in saxosis vulcanicis aridis pedemontanae regionis: 

 Catania, Oynina, Acicastello, Acireale. 



