146 DICOTYL.— COROLLIFLOllAK 



men globosura, corrngato-sulcatum, umbilico laterali, erabryo- 

 ne minimo, radicula supera. Herba perennis, exsiccatione 

 nig-rescens; folia opposita, cruciata, raro solitaria, dentato- 

 crenata. 



Guss. Syn. Fl. Sic, 2. pag. 115 et Prodr. 2. pag. 155. 

 Torn. Fl. Sic. pag. 428.—Tourn. Instit. pag. 4S2.—Benth. 

 Revis, 6. 



I. E. Columnae. —F/ore5 solitarii, axillares, pedicellati, in 

 cyma terminali, foliata, interrupta, secunda, nunc brevi et 

 nunc elongata dispositi; pedicelli tenues, calyce triplo bre- 

 viores; calyx pilosus, pubescens, labio snperiore ampliore, 

 emarg-inato vel integ-ro, quinquenervi, inferiore bifido, laci- 

 niis planis, acutis, uninerviis; corolla lutea, tota glabra, ca- 

 lyce duplo longior, galea conduplicato - compressa sine pro- 

 boscide labio inferiore multo brevior, cum proboscide subae- 

 qualis, paulo supra medium constricta ibique maculis dna- 

 bus sanguineis picta, apice emarginato-birostellata, rostellis 

 recurvis, inter rostella emittens proboscidem longam, angu- 

 stam, canaliculato-conduplicatam, rectam, emarginatam, la- 

 bio inferiore lobis latis, subrotundis, lateralibus subcrena- 

 tis, medio emarginato, pectore macnla sanguinea notato; sta- 

 mina, oiarium et styli ut iu genere; stignia capitatnra, e- 

 marginatnm, virescens, ultra proboscidem plus minus exer- 

 tum; capsula pubescens, calyce brevior; semina goneris; cau- 

 lis erectus vel adscendens, tetragonns, fistnlosus, pubescens, 

 pilis glabris, albis, articnlatis, subinde inferne glabratus, 

 simplex vel superne ramosns, ramis decussatis, a spithama 

 ad pedes et etiam panlo nltra longus; folia opposita, crn- 

 ciata, brevissime petiolata, late elliptica vel angustiora, o- 

 blonga, obtnsa, dentata vel dentato-dentata, basi cordata vel 

 rotnndata, tenniter pubescentia, snpra laete viridia, snbtns 

 pallidiorn, nninervia et venis parallelis, nnmerosis, snrsnm 

 obliqnis instructa, ima minora; radix fusiforrai - ramosa et 

 ramnlosa, ad collnra squaraata ibique fibrillosa. 



Floret Junio, Julio. \. 



Aetnae, in regione pedeniontana et neraorosa: Paternd, Viu' 

 grande, Valverde, Pedara, Nicolosi, Milo, Zaffarana. 



Icon. Moris. Ox. Hist. sect. 11, tah. 24. fig. 14 sub no- 

 mine: Euphrasia lutea, flore caput Elephantis referenie. — 



