ORTHOSI'PHON INCUR’VUS. 
CURVED ORTHOSIPHON. 
oR DICOTYLEDONEX. 
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NATURAL ORDER, LABIATE, 
meager divisions YNAMIA, 
0 which ormxonrenaia 
this Plant belongs. F LINNEU: 
No. 173. 
: OrtHosIPHon. es fit ot Caryx S spimeninagee aise | quiayeue- 
dentatus, dentis 
post anthesin deflexus. Coroxta tubo exserto recto vel incurvo nec gi ibboso 
nec defracto, limbi labio superiore tri- vel quadrifido, inferiore integerrimo 
i dentula. An 
spent aes 
picéroonik: 
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xflori. Fora rioraia bractezformia, ovata, acuminata, reflexa, pedicelli 
sepius breviora. 
SPECIES. OrrnosipHon raat ee Caule basi hi ean e, 
ascendente, foliis tee oblongis ¢ utrinque angustatis tenuissime 
pubescentibus, verticillastris iibetetulili, pants villosis incurvis ayes triplo 
longioribus, hee subequali, staminibus corollam subequantibus. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ORTHOSIPHON. CALYX ovate-tubu- 
lar, five-toothed, winged by the decurrent margins of the broad mem- 
branous upper tooth, turned downwards after flowering. CoroLta 
with a tube larger than the calyx, straight or curved, but neither 
gibbous nor abruptly bent down, upper lip of the limb three or four 
toothed, lower lip entire, concave. StTaMeENs four, declinate. Fita- 
MENTS free, without teeth. ANTHERS ovately reniform, the cells con- 
fluent. STYLE terminating in a club-shaped head, entire or slightly 
emarginate; the stigmas confluent, terminal. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ORTHOSIPHON INCURVUS.” A loose 
straggling perennial or under-shrub. Stems branched, and often 
trailing at the base, ascending or sometimes erect, but usually weak 
and flexuose, four-angled, rough, with a short stiff down. Leaves 
borne on long foot-stalks, opposite, two to three inches long, oval- 
oblong or even oval-lanceolate, narrowed at both extremities, termi- 
nating in a blunt point, crenate on the margins, rather thick and 
rugose, rather rough on both sides, with minute tubercles, but without 
any hairs. Racemes from six inches to a foot long, terminal, simple, 
wavy, consisting of a number of false whorls placed at intervals of 
