PLATE DLXXX1V. 





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SAMI'A 



Samian Phlomis. . 



CLASS XIV. ORDER I. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx angulatus. Corollae labium superius in- 

 cumbens, compressum, villosum. 





Cup angled : upper lip of the corolla incumbent 

 compressed and downy. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Phlomis caule hirsuto, foliis cordatis, crenatis, 

 subtus tomentosis, bracteis tripartitis su- 

 bulatis mucronatis calycem aequantibus. 

 mild. Sp. PL 3. p. 120. 





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dmis with a hairy stalk: leaves heart-shaped, 

 scolloped, and cottony underneath : bract* 

 3 -parted, awl -shaped, as long as the cup. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 



1 . The empalement. 



2. A flower spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointaL 



This curious species appears to have been introduced by Mr. Miller j but, not being enumerated in 

 the Hortus Kewensis, nor the Catalogue of the Cambridge Botanic Garden, must have been since lost. 

 Indeed Mr. Miller informs us, that the severe winter of 1740 destroyed all the plants of it then in 

 England. A. B. Lambert, esq. who communicated the specimens in July last from his garden at Boy- 

 ton, informs us that Dr. Williams, regius professor of botany at Oxford, favoured him with the plant ; 

 and his predecessor Dr. Sibthorpe, who made two journeys into Greece to enrich us with the natural 

 history of that interesting country, was probably the re-introducer. The name Samia is derived from 

 the island of Samos ; but Monsieur Desfontaines informs us (in his Flora Atlantica) that the original 

 Samian plant of Tournefort and the Phlomis Samia of Linnaeus (which he found wild about Mount 

 Atlas) are different species. Both may possibly be natives of Samos : the posthumous Flora Graeca of 

 Dr. Sibthorpe, now publishing by his friend Dr. Smith, will, we trust, decide it. There is no prior 

 figure of the plant. 



