NATURAL ARRANGEMENT. 



529 



1694 Pruntlla L. 



1695 Clebniai. 

 1693 Scutellaria L. 



76 Salvia L. 



*0 14 



1 



*0 28 



*10 78 



379. Tribe 6. PRASIE\F. 

 1696 Prasium L. 



380. Tribe 7. OCYMOIDE/E. 



lig.O. herb. 5. 4J ft, 

 3381 Moschosma Rchb. 

 3383 Cbleus Lou. 



1687 0'cymum /,. 



1688 Lumnitzera Jac. 



1689 Plectra nth us Her it. 



3382 Acroc^phalus Benth. 



3384 Anisochllus Lou. 



1662 Pycn^stachys Pair. 



1756 JEollanthus 



1661 HyptisJrtc. 



1692 Prostanthera Lab. 



381. ORDER CXLIII, VERBENA'CE^E. 



Genera 29, Species 217; Hot-house Species 141 ; Green-house Species 47 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 3 ; 



Hardy Herbaceous Species 26. f 14| ft. ; 12} ft. ; * feet 



A mixture of weeds and showy herbs, of humble creeping plants and of lofty timber trees. Some of the 

 Vitexes and Clerodendrums are handsome shrubs : Aloysirt is esteemed for the fragrance of its flowers, and 

 Holmskioldm for the refulgent scarlet of its enlarged calyxes. Tectona produces the famous Indian teakwood. 

 No properties of consequence have been attributed, by medical men, to any plant of the order, those formerly 

 ascribed to the vervain and chaste-tree being now disregarded. The species are natives of waysides in Europe, 

 and of woods and barren plains in the tropics. Cuttings, divisions, and seeds. 



1752 Clerodndrum L. 52 Cornute'a L. 



1753 Volkamerm L. 1736 Gmelln L. 



360 jEgiphila L. 1758 Citharexylum L. 



357 Callicarpa L. 1759 Duranta L. 



1743 Fltex L. 20 1730 Amasonia L. 



1744 Chloanthes R. Br. 1738 Lantana L. 



1737 Premna L. 1748 Spielmanma Med. 



1754 Holmski61d*a Retz. 554 Tectona L. 



1755 Petrea L. 1747 Str^ptium Rox. 

 51 H6sto Jac. 1746 Priva Adan. 



79 Ghima Schreb. 

 1757 Tambnia Aub. 



68 Stachytarpheta Vahl 

 1745 Zapanza J. 



1739 Alo^sia Or. 

 1749 FerbenaZ,. 



1740 Lippirt L. 



1735 Hebenstreitza L. 

 1742 Selago L. 



382. ORDER CXL1V. MYOPO'RINJE. 



Genera 4, Species 1 8 ; Hot-house Species 2 ; Green-house Species 16 ; Hardy Ligneous Species ; 

 , Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. feet ; ] feet ; ^fe feet. 



South Sea and New Holland shrubs, with scarcely any hair. The leaves are simple, alternate, or opposite, 

 irith no stipule. The flowers, scarlet, white, or blue, axillary without bracteae. These are very near Verbe- 

 lacea?. Stenochllus is the handsomest genus of the order : the Avicennias are shore plants, growing in the 

 dace of the mangroves, and shooting their long roots to a great distance among the mud, sometimes to 

 he length of six feet along the surface before they fix themselves. Their medicinal properties, if any, 

 are unknown. Cuttings. 



1761 Myoporum Forst. 



1762 Stenochllus R. Br. 



1763 B6ntaz L. 

 1751 Aviclnnfo L. 



383. ORDER CXLV. ACANTHA S CEJE. 



Genera 18, Species 168 ; Hot-house Species 144; Green-house Species 18 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 0; 

 .Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. i feet ; 7 feet ; *= feet. 



These are known by the elastic dehiscence of their capsules, and the hooked processes of the seeds. They 

 are almost entirely tropical herbs or shrubs, with the pubescence, if any, simple or capitate, but never stellate. 

 Their leaves are opposite, occasionally arranged in fours, simple and undivided, or very seldom lobed. The 

 flowers are either in imbricated heads or open racemes, always enclosed in their bractea? ; and are white, blue 

 yellow, scarlet, or purple. Some of the species are very showy, but few of them are cultivated commonly; a 

 large proportion are mere weeds. The Thunbergias are fine climbers, and the Acanthus m611is, the foliage 

 of which gave rise to the classical acanthus of architecture, is, perhaps, except Morlna pe>sica, one of the most 

 interesting of hardy herbaceous plants. It is also one of the few species to which any medicinal properties are 

 ascribed, being used sometimes as an emollient by reason of its mucilage. Justicia biflora is employed in Egypt 

 as a poultice, J. Ecbblium as a diuretic, and J. pectoralis as a vulnerary. Cuttings, seeds, and division. 



1722 Acanthus L. 05 1729 ^lechum J. 56 Elytraria MX. 1 



1723 Blepharis J. 1731 Aphelandra R. Br. 60 Nelsomo R. Br. 

 1734 Thunberg/'a L. 1732 Geissomeria 72. Br. 58 Justicia L. 

 1725 Barleria L. 1733 Crossandra Sal. 59 Dicliptera Vahl 

 1728 Hygrophila R. Br. 1726 Phaylopsis J. 57 Hypoestes Sol. 



1727 Ruelb'a L. 1724 Lepidagathis W. 61 Eranthemum R. Br. 



584. ORDER CXLV I. OROBANCHE^E. 



Genera 2, Species 1 ; Hot-house Species ; Green-house Species ; Hat 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 1. f Ofeet; j4|feet; == 



Leafless parasites on roots, with brown or colorless scaly stems and flowers. 

 1770 Lathra"a L. *0 1 | 1764*0robanche L. 



y Ligneous Species ; 

 feet. 



*0 6 



385. ORDER CXLVII. LENTIBULA^RIJE. 



Genera 2, Species 9 ; Hot-house Species ; Green-house Species 2 ; Hardy Ligneous Species ; 



Hardy Herbaceous Species 7-10 feet 5 2 feet ; ^ 2 feet 



Very pretty interesting aquatics, which are scarcely susceptible of cultivation, except in a few cases. The 

 Pinguiculas are either European or North American, inhabitating elevated patches in bogs : the Utricularias 

 are floaters, found in most countries in marshes and little rills : their flowers, are white, yellow or blue. Ottsets 

 66 Pinguicula L. *0 4 | 67 Utricularia L. 03 



386. ORDER CXLVIII. PRIMULA'CEJE. 



Genera 17, Species 143 ; Hot-house Species ; Green-house SpecieslQ ; Hardy Ligneous Species ; 



Hardy Herbaceous Species 115. JO feet ; 11 feet ; J= 3 feet 



Beautiful dwarf herbs, inhabiting the mountains and meadows of all parts of the world, but especially 

 In the northern hemisphere. Nothing can be more lovely than the little delicate alpine Primulas, Androsaces, 

 Aretias, and Soldanellas, with their little modest blossoms, sometimes rivalling the whiteness of the surrounding 

 snow, sometimes emulating the intense blue of the empyrean, as if the one had borrowed its hues from 

 heaven, and the other from the spotless mantle of the earth. Hott&ma is a naiad of the stream, inhabiting 

 several parts of England, in ponds and ditches, which are enlivened for many a month with its rosy 

 flowers, peeping from among the sedge and under-grass by which it is environed. All the genera are familiar 

 to gardeners, except Centunculus and Schwtnck//?, of which the former is singular in the order, as being 



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