LISIAN’THUS RUSSELLIA'NUS. 
“DUKE OF BEDFORD’S LISIANTHUS. 
EXOGENZ. : OR DICOTYLEDONEX 
Natural division 
to which — 
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NATURAL ORDER, GENTIANACEZ, 
a caer - Artificial divisions 
to which omesecas 
ath, coe this Plant ee OF LINNEUS. 
No. 148. 
GENUS. Listantuus. P. Browne. Catyx campanciatis, : ee 
laciniis erect, , margine m ape oe tenerioribus Cor 
ma 1 tri Mabini” 
STAMINA is 800 i ll= tuboi +: inclusa vel li cheas equantia; 
Po enta basi qualia, swpissime ‘inequi ilonga; anthere incumbentes, ple- 
rumque apice demum revolute te Tongadinaliter debiasented. ‘an valvu- 
larum marginibus introflexis “pia minus comp! biloculare. in 
pl s valvula argines oc¢cupantibus plu . is; 
stigma bilam PSULA Valy marginibus placentiferis introflexis 
bilocularis vel semibilocularis, bivalvis, Semina ‘ima. ERB Vel suffru- 
tices Americe tropice, erecti, aule tetr , Simplici vel supe 
glabri; n 
remono;foliis« si scree: decussatis, breve pétiolatis vel. cypare petiolis al §ei 
, flor 
simam eommissig 
in vaginam b 
axillaribus vel terminalibus, racemosis, racemis opie, cum flore date vel 
dichotomis aut = niculatis, corollis pu _ eis, oie ceruleis vel luteo- 
viridibus. Ewnpzicuer: Genera Plantarum, p. 603 
SPECIES. Lisrantaus Russevuianus. (Hooxer) Fottis ovatis acu 
mis 3-5- oer rvis, flo ribus paniculatis, Salyoas profunde pertitis, 1 ser oroot Tone 
latis, 
sime I +t 
08 obovatis patentibus. 
CHARACTER OF THE GeNus, LisiANTHUS. CaLyx campanulate, 
five-cleft, segments erect, thinner than the membranaceous margin. 
Coro.ta hypogynous, funnel-shaped, marcescent; tube unequal or 
ventricose; limb five-cleft. Stamens five, iret into the base of 
the tube of the corolla, and included in it, or equalling the limb in 
length. FImamMENTs equal at the base where they originate, but often 
enequal i in length. ANTHERS incumbent, generally becoming revolute 
at the apex, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary, owing to the margins 
plates. CapsuLe two- or nearly two-celled, owing to the placentiferous 
margins being bent inwards, becoming two-valved. SEEDS numerous 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, LisIANTHUS RUSSELLIANUS. 
An herbaceous plant, glaucous and smooth in every part. Stem two 
feet high, rounded, generally simple, or having a few opposite 
