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slightly striped and conspicuously dotted with deep purple ; the 

 lower lip is paler, and tinged with yellowish inside ; the tube is pi- 

 lose-annulate next the base. The stamens, inserted towards the 

 summit of the tube, are a little exserted. In fruit, the spike, cov- 

 ered with the four-ranked persistent calyxes with their bracts, attains 

 the length of six to nine inches. The calyx is then dry, scarious, 

 and finely reticulated ; the upper side is much more strongly gib- 

 bous than is shown in Fig. 9, so that the achenia are nearly con- 

 cealed in the cavity ; this is closed by the lower lip, which is now 

 applied flatly against the upper, nearly covering its whole face. In 

 B. scutellarioides, the lower lip is smaller and much narrower than 

 the upper, but it covers the orifice in the same way. 



The figure was made from specimens raised in the Cambridge 

 Botanic Garden, from Texan seeds sent by Mr. Lindheimer. 





Tab. V. Brazoria truncata. Pig. 1. Flowering stem, natural size. 

 Fig. 2. Spike, with the summit of the stem, in fruit. Fig. 3. A flower, 

 seen in front. (The lateral lobes of the lower lip are not represented as emar- 

 ginate or two-cleft at the apex, which they almost always are.) Fig. 4.. Up- 

 per lip of the corolla, with a portion of the tube. Fig. 5. Anterior part of the 

 throat seen from within, to show the sort of palate. Fig. 6. Calyx and style, 

 with the bract. Fig. 7. Fructiferous calyx, seen in front. Fig. 8. The same, 

 seen laterally. Fig. 9. Front view of the same, with the lower lip separated 

 and turned down. (The well defined and deep cavity at the base of the upper 

 lip, inclosing the achenia, is not well shown in this figure, which was taken be- 

 fore maturity ; nor is the fine reticulation of the calyx represented.) All 

 the analyses are more or less enlarged. 



