170 DICOTYL.— COROLLIFLORAE 



tubulosus, plicato-quinquecostatus, plicaturis plerumque mem- 

 branaceis, costis herbaceis, in dentes saepe inaequales; co- 

 rolla alba, cavnea, purpurea vel purpureo-coerulescens, hy- 

 pocraterimorpha, hypogyna, bilabiata, tubo gracili, recto vel 

 incurvo, fauce dilatata, iabio superiore erecto, plano, bilobo, 

 inferiore trifido, patonte, laciniis obLiisis; stamina quatuor, 

 didynama, tubo corollino inserta, inclusa, omnia fertilia vel 

 duo superiora ananthera, filamentis brevissimis, antheris su- 

 brotundis, bilocularibus incubentibusque; ovarium 2-4-locu- 

 lare, loculis uniovulatis, receptaculo annuliformi, sublobato 

 insidens; stylus terminalis, stamina aequans; stigma subca- 

 pitatum; dnipa oblonga, exsucca, bilocularis bipartibilis vel 

 quadrilocularis quadripartibilis; semina in loculis solitaria, 

 oblongo-trigona, scaiira, embryone exalbuniinoso, racMcula in- 

 fera. Herbae vel suffrutices erecti vel procumbentes vel ad- 

 scendentes; folia opposita, rigida, saepissime serrata vel in- 

 cisa, indivisa vel piunato-laciniata. 



Endl. Gen. Pl pag. 683. n. 3685.— R. Br. Prodr. pag. 

 514. — Lam. III. 1. tab. 17. — Gaertn. De Frtict. et Semin. 

 1. pag. 815. tah. 66.—Bert. Fl. It. 6. pog. 260. — Moris 

 Fl. Sard. S.pag. ^i^. — Totn. Fl. Sic. pag. 41S. ~ Guss. 

 Syn. Fl. Sic. 2. pag. 108. — Parl. Fl. Ital. cont. da T. 

 Cariiel vol. 6. pag. 380.— DC. Prodr. 11. pag..535. 



I, V. officlnalis.— F/ores parvi, spicati, remoti, alterni, sub- 

 sessiles, spicis tenuibus, filiformibus, longis et magis dum 

 fructiferis, paniculatis, cruciatis, terminalibus cauli et ramis, 

 inferne nudis et pilis albis sparsis; sub quovis flore hra- 

 cteola lanceolata, acuta, viridis, pubescens, calyce brevior; 

 calyx exiguus, sessilis, tubulosus, in fructu ovato-oblongus, 

 quinquedentatus, dentibus erectis, acutis, saepe purpureo-ru- 

 bellis, setulis albidis et pilis brevibus glandulosisque te- 

 ctus; corolla coerulescens vel rarius alba, parva sed caly- 

 ce duplo longior, externe villosa, tubo gracili, incluso, fau- 

 ce exerta, dilatata, recurva, labio inferiore longiore et in 

 fauce ima albo-barbellato; stamina quatuor, inclusa, anthe- 

 ris luteis; ovnrinni ut in genere; stylus rubens, incurvulus 

 et staminibus aequalis; stigma generis; capsula oblonga, u- 

 nilocularis, quadrivalvis, striata; semina quatuor, oblongo- 

 trigona, granuloso-scabra; caiiUs erectus, subsolitarius, sca- 



