10 DIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



summit to the base. Dissepiment contrary, 

 growing from the centre of each valve. 

 Seeds few, lenticular. JVutt. 



pcduncuiosa. 1. I. spikes axillary, flowers crowded; peduncles 



long, alternate ; leaves lanceolate. 

 Dianthera Americana. Lin. syst. veg. 64. 

 D. ensiformis. Walt. fl. amer. 63. 

 Justicia linear ifolia. Lam. illustr. 1. p. 41. 

 I. pedunculata. Persoon. 

 I. Americana. Muhl. Cat. 



Icon. Pluck, aim. t. 423. f. 5. 



American Justicia* 



An herbaceous ordinary looking plant, always found near 

 water Learps opposite. Peduncles very long ; flowers pur- 

 ple. Quite local, though tolerably abundant where I have 

 found it, viz. on the shores of the Delaware above Kensington, 

 where the tide overflows. 



10. UtricularIA, L. Gen. pi. 41. (Lwmachia.J 



Cat. 2-parted, the lower division often emar- 

 ginate, rarely cleft. Cor. scarcely tubulose, 

 irregularly bilabiate, upper lip erect, entire, 

 or emarginate, staminiferous ; lower larger, 

 entire, 3-lobed, or crenate ; palate more or 

 less cordate, rather prominent on the inner 

 side, calcarate at the base. Filaments of 

 the stamina incurved ; anthers connate. 

 Stigma bilamellate. Caps, globular, 1- cell- 

 ed, many seeded (opening by a lateral fora- 

 men?) receptacle of the seed, central, un- 

 connected. JVutt. 



vulgaris. 2. U. nectary conical, the upper lip reflexed, as. 

 long as the palate, scape upright. Vahl. and 

 Willd. 



