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Tliis new addition to tlie Genus PhcUpcea of Tourncfoit, again 

 re-established by Desfontaines from his MSS. and the original 

 drawing of Aubriet in the Museum of Natural History at Paris, 

 and confirmed by the authority of Jussieu, throws considerable 

 light upon the character of that curious genus ; and is the more 

 interesting, that no specimens of the Rhclipaa Tournefortii now 

 remain in his Herbarium, or are known to exist in any other 

 collection. 



The specimens of Phelipcea foliata in the Pallasian collection 

 rise from a short scaly root a little fibrous below, to from ten to 

 eighteen inches in height ; the stems striated and a little tlexuose, 

 leafy towards the base, but naked a considerable way below the 

 flower. The specimens from Caucasus, when magnified, appear 

 a little villose ; those from Tauria are shining, and without any 

 sort of pubescence. The calyx is bilabiate, with the upper lip 

 three-cleft, the divisions approaching each other and a little 

 incurved; the under lip is deeply two-parted, with the divisions 

 more obtuse and longer than in the upper lip. The tube of the 

 corolla is curved, the limb bilabiate with the upper lip two- 

 parted, the divisions nearly oval, and the lower lip three-parted 

 and considerably longer. The filaments are broad, compressed 

 and approaching in pairs, two of them considerably shorter, and 

 are inserted in the tube of the corolla. The anthers are large, 

 with two cells, and of a shape nearly resembling a heart inverted 

 with a double point. 'J he style-is round and incurved ; the stigma 

 very large, and nearly hemispherical. 'J'he capsule is oval, with 

 the seeds affixed to four fleshy branched receptacles adhering 

 longitudinally to its sides, and ramifying throughout the whole 

 of its interior, but without appearing to unite with one another. 

 'Jlie seeds are very small, nearly oval, shining, and exceedingly 

 numerous, covering every lobe and sinus of tlie receptacles. 



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