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San Francisco [Fries, n. \~'.\ cl 473 a]. - Tucuman, prov. Oran (incl. 

 Tarija et Chaco) (ex Grisebach). — Jujivj (Kuntze). — Ile Maurice: 

 naturalisé (Johnston). 



STEMODIACRA BROWNE 



Scordium : Sloane, Calalog. (1696), 66; Jam., I (1707}, 17.'i, t. 110, f. 2. - 

 Stemodiacra : P. Browne, Civil, and Nat. Hisl. of .laminai (1756), 261 [Genus 

 indeseriplum !J ; non recentiorum auctorum sensu nisi pro parle [vide Stemodiœ 

 syiionym.]. — Stemodia : Linné, Syslema, Ed. X (1759), 1118, 1374, n. 1154. 

 — Jussieu, in tlort. Trianon (1759), ex Pfeiffer. — Linné, Spec, Ed. II 

 (1763), 881 et III (1764), id. — Adanson, Faut., Il (1763), 210. - Gleditch, 

 Syslema (1764), 179, n. 737. — Linné, Gênera, Ed. VI (1764), 320, n. 777; 

 Ord. Nat. (1764); Systema, Ed. XII (1767), 422. — Murkay, Systema (1774), 

 479. — Scopoli, lntrod. ad hisl. nat. (1777), 177. — Reichenbach, Gênera 

 (1778), 322, n. 839. — Murray, Systema (1784), 573. — ïussac, Gênera (1789), 

 118, ex Pfeiffer. — Necker, Elementa, I (1790), 348, n. 543. — Schreber. 

 Gênera, Il (1791), 420, n. 1043. — Gmelin, Syslema (1791), 954, nec aucturuin 

 recentiorutn sensu, nisi pro parte, post introdiictionem Caprariœ durantifoliœ 

 a Swartz, Obs. bot. (1791), 240, in Slemodiam genus, quam speciem, quia fre- 

 quentissiinam, anctores omnes tacite ab eo teinpore quasi generis typum intuiti 

 sunt. [Cf. tatnen Gisegke, Prœlecliones (1792), 486-487. — Mouton-Fontevili.e. 

 Syst. d. pi. extr. et trad. des ouvr. de Linné, III (1805), 125 et Kunth, Synopsis 

 plantant»), II (1823), 118.] 



Calyx 5-partitus segmentis linearibus lanceolatis subsequalibus, 

 pubescentibus gïandulosis. 



Corollatubo obconico, Jabio superiore rotundato subintegro, inferiore 

 trilobo, lobis regulariter rotundatis basi non plicata nec constricta. 



Stamina 4 inclusa, sequalia (vel rarissime 1 inferius + aborlivuin), 

 filamentis in connectivum 2-ramosum furcatis, ramis teretibus oblique 

 extensis, apice antberarum locnlos valde disjunctos dorsifixos ferenti- 

 bus. Slamen quintum totaliter suppressiim. 



Stylus apice in stigrna vix dilatatus. 



Capsula ovata, superne crassior, septicide et loculicide in valvas 4, 

 columnam placentiferam demum libérantes, debiscens. Placentœ 2 

 integrœ. Semina parva numerosa. 



Plantas suffrutescentes, viscoso-pubescentes, caulibus duris subqua- 

 drangularibus, dense foliosis, ramosis, ramis erectis vel rarius 

 procumbentibus; l'olia opposita tetrastica, sessilia amplexicaulia saepis- 

 sime appressa; bracteolaî calycis segmenlibus latiores, iisque appressae. 



Genus a Stemodia corolla, staminibus, stigmate et babitu differt. 



Stemodiacra maritima (Sloane) Browne 



Scordium maritimum, l'ruticosum procumbens, flore cœruleo Sloane, Cata- 

 logus plantation qiuv in Ins. Jamaica sponle proveniunt (1696), 66: Voyage to... 

 Jamaica icith the nat. FLst., I (1707), 175, t. 110, f. 2. — Stemodiacra mari- 



