﻿PLATE DXXXVII. 



ORIGANUM TOURNEFORTIL 



Toumefort* s Origanum. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER I. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds naked. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



trobilus tetragonus, spicatus, calyces colli- || Head of flowers four-sided, like ears of corn, 



gens. Corollae labium superius erectum : | containing the cups. The upper lip of the 



inferius 3-partitum : laciniis aequalibus. blossom is upright : the lower is three-parted, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 )riganum spicis tetragonis : bracteis sub-ro- j| Origanum with a four-sided spike : floral 

 tundis, maximis : foliis geminis, oppositis, leaves nearly round, and large. Leaves by 



alternis, cordatis, punctatis, glaucis. pairs, opposite and alternate, heart-shaped, 



dotted, and glaucous. 

 Habitat in Magna Grsecia. || Native of Greece. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



2. The same spread without the cup, 



3. Seed- bud and pointal. 



This species of Origanum was first discovered by Tournefort, who, in his travels in the Levant, de- 

 scribes it as one of the rarest plants in all the Archipelago j native of Amorgos, and only to be found 

 in the clefts or rents of a hideous rock that overhangs the sea. At the bottom of this rock stands a 

 convent of the Virgin, a large house resembling a chest of drawers, and to which there is no entrance 

 but by a ladder of a dozen wooden steps through a small opening in one of the corners, the door of 

 winch is covered with iron piates. This frightful promontory is naturally perpendicular, and said to 

 exceed in height that of La Sainte Baurae in Provence. 



