» CHASCA‘NUM CUNEIFO'LIUM. 
| ~ WEDGE-LEAVED CHASCANUM. 
* EXOGENZ OR _ DICOTYLEDONES, 
Natural Aisinion 
* o wh 
this Plant “arity 
jew divisions 
DIDYNAMIA, 
ANGIOSPERMIA, 
LINNEUS. 
COROLLIFLORZE, 
OF 
DECANDOLLE, 
ae to which 
e ok Plant belongs. 
No. 196. 
GENUS. Me Baivc artic. ERnstT sri Catyx tubulosus, ee 
tus, demum latere longitudinaliter fissus. Coroti« tubus cylindraceus, elon- 
gatus, ce thoepe ir saiidlebiatns, Sramina quatuor, didynama, 
M quadri wipe loculis uniovulatis. Stryzus termin- 
Sticm: lbh ties, linguifo Drop A exsicca, abortu bilocularis, di- 
erne adherens. SEMINA in Teal ebay ria. SUFFRUTICES 
Capenses. Fe LIA ci dentata vel incisa. Fores spicati. 
oS ECIES. Cu NUM CUNEIFOLIUM; (ERNST asd foliis late cu- 
heatis apice | Di winteste: ies 7-9-dentatis, sBicik terminalibus elongatis. 
CHARACTER ‘OF THE GENUS, CHAsScANUM. CatLyx tubular, five- 
toothed, splitting at length longitudinally on one side. Tusr oF THE 
Coro ita long, cylindrical ; limb spreading, five-cleft, somewhat two- 
lipped. Sramens four, didynamous, included in the tube of the co- 
rolla. Ovary four-celled, each cell with one ovule. STyxe terminal. 
Sriema oblique, tongue-shaped. Fruir a dry drupe, two-celled by 
abortion, affixed laterally by the base to the scale-like remains of the 
other half. SreEps solitary in each cell. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, CHASCANUM CUNEIFOLIUM. STEM 
shrubby and branching at the base, smooth, or with a very minute 
almost imperceptible down. LeEaves opposite, bro uC 
or fan-shaped, about half an inch long and fully as broad, rounded or 
rarely truncate at the top, and bordered by about seve i 
teeth, entire at the base and narrowed into a a shor 
folded in their length, thick, smooth, and gre 
FLOWER-SPIKES slender, from three to six inches ong, terminating 
the stem and branches. FLowERs nearly sessile in the axilla of a 
small ovate-pointed bract, the lower ones of ten opposite, the upper 
ones alternate, placed at distances of one to six lines from each other. 
PepiceELs usually shorter than the bracts, often almost none. CALyx 
