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GENUS m. LIPPIA. 

 Oldynamia Aiigiospermia. Sex: St/si: 



toeHv. Named after Augustus Ligpi, a Tfench Physician aiicl 

 traveller in Abyssinia. 



Gen. Chab. Oalyx small, membranaceous, tubular, 2-wingedi 

 2-keeled or without angles, 2-oleft, lobes more or less manifestly 

 2-tooth:ed, and at last often 2-valved and adherent to the capsulej 

 or almost eiqual and herbaceous-4-toothed : corolla tiibnlar-subin- 

 fttndibuliform, tube amplified upwards-, limb oblique, flat Or bend- 

 ing, somewhat 2-lipped, upper lip entire or 2-cleft, lower 3-cleft : 

 stamens didynamous inserted on the tube, enclosed : anthers 2- 

 pelled, cells dehiscing by a gaping cleft : ovary 2icelled, cells 

 1-ovuled : style terminal, short, filiform : stigma lateral, linear : 

 capsules dicoccous, cocci easily separating or cohering when ripe^ 

 pericarp very hard, back smooth. 



(1) L. NoDiFtoRA. {Rich.) 



Ident. Rich, in Michx. flor. Bor. Am. II. p. 15. — Dec. jjrod 

 XI. p. 585. 



Syn. Verbena nodiflofa, Linn. — V. capitata, Forik.- — Blairia 

 nodiflora, Gceftn. — Zapaiiia nodifiora, Lam. 



Engrav. Lam. 111. t. 17. fig. 3.— Wight's Icon. t. 1463. — 

 Burm. Ind. t. 6. f. I.— Rheede Mai. X. t. 47. 



Spec. Char. Creeping, all strigose with adplreSsed hairs : stems 

 filiform : leaves cuneate, spathulate, sharply serrated in the upper 

 half : peduncles axillaryj solitary : heads of flowers ovoid, and 

 afterwards cylindric, small, white. 



Common in grassy and sandy places, flowering nearly all the 

 year. 



GENUS TV. LAiTTANA. 

 Ikidynainia Ang:io8|ierinia. Sex: Sysi' 



Beriv. An ancient name of Viburnum, and applied by LinheeuSj 

 because of its affinity. 



Calyx membranaceous, small, obsoletely 3-4-toothed, ciliate, 

 covering the fruit, and with its increase, becoming greatly extend- 

 ed and translucent, at length withering away : corolla tubuloso- 

 infundibuliform, slightly swelling upwards : limb oblique, flat, or 

 inclined, somewhat bilabiate, the upper lip entire or bifid, the lower 

 one lobed : stamens 4, inserted within the tube of the corolla, 



