268 SCKOlMU'LAUIACrM-. 



with the mouth a little opcm ; upper lip -broad, concave, 

 keeled in the middle, notched at the apex; the lower lip 

 spreading 8-cleft, bearded in the throat. STAMENS 4. didy- 

 namooSj with a 5th shorter sterile filament ; ANTHEBS heart- 

 shaped, woolly. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded ; 

 BEEDS wing-margined. — Smooth perennials, with upright 

 branching stems, opposite serrate litres, and large whi'e 

 or purplish flowers* sessile, in spikes or dusters, and close'y 

 imbricated with roundish bracts and b: actlets. 



1. 0. GLABRA, L. Tuttle-head. BaJnwny Sh<V flower. 



Leaves very short-petioled, lanceolate, pointed ; fl owers in dense spikes. 



Wet places; common. Aug. — Oct. Sh n '2 to 3 feet high, simple. / 

 an 1 Bonvrwhat coriaceous, varying Gram marrow tj rery 1 1 

 targe, white or reddish. 



7. TEXTSTEMOX, Mitchell.' 



Gt.pente, five, and steauin, a stamen: in allusion to the 5th Iairge abortive jtamon. 



Oalyx 5-parUd. Corolla tubular, more or less inflated, 

 mostly 2-iipped ; the upper Up 2-lobed, and the lower 3 cleft, 

 MENS -1, declined air the base, ascending above; and a 

 fifth sterile filament, mostly as long as the others, either 

 naked or bearded. Capsule ovoid, 2-celled, 2-valved. — ■ 

 Perennial herbs, branches at the base, with opposite leaves, 

 and a hotay flowers in thvrsoid panicles. 



1: P. ruEESCEN5^S:4and.- Bbard^cngue. 



Somewhat pubescent; radical leaves petioled, orate or oblong: stem tenet lanrso- 

 late f.o:n a clasping base, serrate, sometimes entire; flowers loosely pan 

 Ua~ment bearded from the I the middle, 



mil* and river banks; common. Jane — S I L5 inch ?s high, rannd, 



smooth" below, supporting u loose oppositely branched panic! 

 flowers. CbroWa 1 inch long, gradually en . :n.vl and l-i 



. oppcr ode. [oite smooth, when it is I*. latijatus, Soland ; ac. 



S . EAULOXIA, Siebold... 



Oalyx- deeply c-eleft, fleshy. CVr-olla-tube long, de- 

 cimate, enlarged above, limb oblique, with rounded segm 

 Stamens 4, arched downwards. Capsule woody, acumi- 

 nate ; valves septiferous in the middle. Seeds numerous. — 

 *i magnificent flowering tree, native of Japan, ivtth targe 

 leaves, and large terminal panicles of numerous purplish 

 flowers- 



h" P. imperiali?, Siebold. Puidonia. ■ 



Lents broad-eordatc-ovate, entire or somewhat 3-lobed. villous-eancscont on 

 both side**, saioothiih aboTe wh.n full {town. A splendid tree wiUi Uie-Ldtit U 



