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sinsculum, vertice subplanum. FolUciiU oblique siiborbicularcSj 5-6 

 lin. loiigl et lati pra3ter rostrnia obliquum 2-3 lin. longum. Semina 

 pauca, obovata, plano-compressa, margine attenuato grosse dentata, 

 coma destituta. 



The habit and small flower of this plant are nearly those of Meta- 

 stelma ; but besides the form of the corolla the genus is distinguished 

 from nearly the whole order by the seeds absolutely without any 

 coma. — G. Benteam. 



Fig. 1. Flower-Lud. 2. Flower expanded. 3. Corona. 4. Pollen-miisaes. 5. Fruit. 

 C. Seed. 



Plate 1215. 



CATOPHERIA SPICATA, Senth. 



Labiate, Tribe Ocimoide^. 



Catopheria, Benth. in Benih. et HooJc. Gen. PL ii. 1173. 



C. spicata, BentJi, foliis amplis basi in petiolura angustatis, spicaob- 

 longVL V. elongata multiflora, corolla calyce subdimidio, genitalibus pins 

 dnplo longioribus. — OrtJiosipJi(yii spicattcs, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 53. 



Hab. New Grenada, Parroquia de Carmen, Purdie, Convenfion in 

 the same province of Ocana, Scldim, n. 714. 



Caules herbacei (v. suffmticosi?) erecti, elati, tetragoni, pubescentes 

 V. demum glabrati. Folia petiolata,'ovata v. elliptica, acuminata, eroso- 

 subdentata, basi breviter in petiolam decurrentia, pube brevi scabrins- 

 cnla, majora S-lO-pollicaria. Spica terminalis, deiisa, 3-6-polIicarig, 

 supra folia summa pedunculata. Folia floralia bracteaeforraia, 

 colorata, acumine tereti pubescente terminata floribus sa^pius breviora. 

 Calyx subinflato-tnbulosus, puberulus (rubescens?), per anthesin semi- 

 pollicarls, fructifer deflexns fere pollicaris, dente postico tube fere 

 sequilongo ovato obtuso marglnibus reflexis vix v. non decurrentibus, 

 lateralibus cum anticig in labium inferius brevissime 4-dentatum co- 



alitis. 



us VIX ( 



intesTO 



Stamina corollam duplo excedentia v. paullo longiora ; anthera? 

 ovat^, loculis primum subparallehs connectivum marginantibus apice 

 confluentibus, demum explanatis. Discxis annularis, fere cupolaris, 

 minuto-dentatus. Stylus apice subgloboso-capitatus vix emarginatus. 

 Nuculce compressiuscute, Iseves. 



Besides the two species described in DC. Prod, as the section Cato- 

 feria of Orthosiphon, there is a third gathered by Ghiesbrecht in Chiapa 



