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GENUS IV. BHYNCHOQLOSSUM. 



Dldynamia Angiospermia, Sex .- Syst = 



Deriv. Erom Rhynchos, a beak, and Glossa, a tongue ; tha 

 lower lip of the flower is in the shape of a tong-ue-like beak. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tub^ilar, 5-cleft, lobes valvate in ?sstiva,tion : 

 corolla tubi;lar, personate, shortly 2-lipped, upper lip short, 2- 

 lobed, lower lengthened out half 3-lobed, lateral lobes very short : 

 stamens included, 2 lower oi^es with kidney-shaped ^.nthers, 2. 

 upper ones (with a small rudiment of a third) sterile : vaginula 

 ineomplete, surrounding the base of the ovscry : stigma capitate, 

 scarcely divided : capsule topped with the persistent fiJiforra, 

 style, ovate, 2-valyed, enclosed by the calyx : placentae two, pa- 

 rietal, adnate, split into two lamellse : seeds numerous, small, 

 elliptic-oblong.-^^jinual, gla^brou?, or slightly puberuipus herljs ; 

 stem succulent : leaves alternate,' petioled, ovate, occasionally 

 deeply cut a,t the base, acuminated at the apex : racemes termi- 

 nal, secund, simple :• pedicels solitary, 1-bracteata : flowers de-. 

 flexed, blife, 



(1) R. oBLiQUjf, (i)ec.J 



Jdent Dec. prod. IX. p. 274. 



Si/n. Loxotis bbliqua, R. Br. — Wulfenia obliqua, Don.' flor. 

 Nep. 



Engrav. Wall. tent. flor. Nep. t, 35. 



Spec. Char. Stem slightly glabrous, or sparingly puberulous : 

 l^dult leaves quite glabrous : raceme longer than the leaves^ lovcei; 

 lip of the corolla 3-lobed, 



Silhet. ' 



GENUS V. KLUGIA. 

 Dlttymamia AnglOBpermla. Sex .- Syst: 



Beriv, Named after Fr. King, M. D. 



' Gen. Ghab. Calyx loosely tubular, unequal at the base, occai 

 bionally gibbous above, 5-winged, 5-cornered, 6-cleft, lobes val- 

 »-ate in seativatio:?!, wings or. felds of the tube~ alternating with 

 the lobes : corolla personate, tube subcyHndric, throat closed f 

 tipper lip shortened, 2-lobed, lower lengthened, undivided, or 

 talf 3-lobed : stamens inserted on the tube, inqluded, all fertile : 

 bnthers 2-celled, kidney-shaped, cohering into a little crown : 

 ^T?ary surrounded by a complete annular disk, l-celled : placenta 



