TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Hesperis. 207 

 339. HESPERIS. Dame's-violet. 



Linn. Gen. 340. Juss. 238. Fl. Br.7\\. Comp. ed. 4. 108. Br. 

 inAit.H.Kew. v. 4. 122. DeCand. Syst.v. 2. 446. Tour7i. t. 108. 

 Lam. t. 564./. 1. 



Cal. closely converging ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 

 overlaying each other at the upper part, separating first 

 at the bottom, deciduous ; 2 opposite ones protuberant 

 at the base. Pet. obovate, obtuse, or slightly notched, 

 obliquely spreading; claws linear, channelled, erect, the 

 length of the calyx. Filam. thread-shaped, erect, simple, 

 unconnected ; the 2 shorter with a gland at their base in- 

 ternally. A7ith. linear, recurved. Germ, quadrangular, 

 linear, the length of the calyx. Style scarcely any. Stig- 

 ma nearly sessile, of 2 closely converging, erect, simple, 

 obtuse, downy lobes, permanent, unchanged. Pod li- 

 near, more or less accurately quadrangular, striated, pro- 

 tuberant from the seeds ; valves linear, undulated, acute, 

 the length of the membranous partition. Seeds in a sin- 

 gle row, pendulous, oblong, obscurely triangular, not bor- 

 dered ; cotyledons flat, incumbent. 



Herbaceous, with fibrous roots. Stem round, erect or spread- 

 ing, downy or smooth. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, tooth- 

 ed, finely hairy, rarely entire ; in some sinuated, or run- 

 cinate. Pubescence generally scattered and simple ; partly 

 forked and glandular. Fl. corymbose, purplish, white, 

 or brownish ; powerftiUy scented, for the most part, in an 

 evening. Pods long and slender. 



1. H. matronalis. Common Dame's-violet. 



Partial flower-stalks the length of the calyx. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, toothed. Stem upright, slightly branched. 

 Pods smooth, irregularly tumid, equilateral, nearly ei'ect. 



H. matronalis. Linn. Sp. PL 927. Willd. v. 3. 531. Br. in Ait. H. 



Kew.v.A.\22. DeCand. Syst.v.2.AbQ. Ilook. Scot. 202. 

 H. inodora. Linn. Sp. PI. 927. Willd.v.3.b3\. Huds.288. With. 



586. Fl.Br.yii. Comp. ed. 4. 113. Engl. Bot.v.ll. t.73l. FL 



Dan. t. 924. Jacq. Austr. t. 347. 

 H. n. 448. HaU.-HisL v.\. 195. 

 H. sylvestris inodora. DHL in Raii Syn. 293. Rupp. Jen. ed. HaU. 



78.L\. 

 H. pannonica inodora. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 878./. 

 H. tertia. Clus.Hist.v. \.297.f. 

 H, altera pannonica^ inodora sylvestris. Clus. Pann. 335./. 336. 



