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** Stamina omnia c fauce ejcscrta, ßlamcnlis con- 

 spicuiSy basibus dilatatis contiguiSj allcrnis (calycis 

 lobis autepositis) longioribus, — Frutices cricoiilel;, ra- 

 miilis tt)meutosis; foliis decussato-oppositis, lincaribns, 

 suliaccrosis , dorso couvcxis v. cariuatis, glabris, flora- 

 libus (bracteis) plus minus dilatatis; floribus in sujnmis 

 axillis solitariis, scssilibus, in spicas terminales saope 

 comosas v. abbreviato-subcapituliforraes dispositis , nn- 

 merosis, parvis, rubellis; calycis tubo brevi^ supra gcr- 

 men constricto angusto pubescente, toto deciduo (ncc 

 supra gerracn circnmscisso), fauce intus puberula, limbi 

 4-paititi patentis glabrl lobis tubo parum bievioribns; 

 nucibus demnm nudis, glabris, nigricantibus. 



9. P. ßi/formis, Linn, H. ClilT. t. 11. Wickstr. 1. c. 

 p. 324, ramulis puberulis; foliis snbaceroso - liuearibus, 

 trl([uetris, acutiusculis; spicis multifloris terminalibus v. 

 demum comosis; bracteis ovatis v. oblongis acutis v. ro- 

 strato-acuniinatis, aut lanccolatis, acute carinatis nervo- 

 sisque; calycis lobis ovalibus v. oblongis, obtusis. 



a. vulgaris^ foliis rcctis v. vix incurvis, tota lougitudine 

 rarao adpressis, glabris. 



ß. falcifoliay foliis liuearibus, acutiusculis, toto dorso 

 acute carinatis, plus minus arcuato- incurvis falciformi- 

 bus (plerumquc apice basiquc tantnm ramo contiguis) 

 glal)ris, 



y, coviosa, foliis rectinsculis, obtusiusculis, dorso con- 

 vexis V. oblusissime carinatis, tetrastichis arcte adpres- 

 sis ramuluraquc quasi eleganter 4-gonum rcddentibus, 

 superioribus pilosulis et coma brevi densa albida tcrmi- 

 natis, spicis sempcr comosis, bracteis ovato- v. oblongo- 

 ,; rhombcis obtusiusculis (nee acuminatis) ncrvis carina- 

 que minus prominulis v. obsolclis. 



