Order I. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 317 
5391 Anth. crested included. Flowers capitate campan. cernuous, Leaves 4 cernuous 
5392 Anth. crested included, Fl. 3, Leaves 4 subulate erect mucronate 
5393 Anth. bearded. Cor. campan. Fl. whorled. Leaves 6 hairy spiral 
5394 Leaves narrow, Cal. recurved horizontal. Cor. globose with segm. imbricated at base 
5395 Anth. crested. Leaves 3 lanceolate rough, Fl. 3, Cal. ciliated reflex ed 
5396 Anth. crested included. Cor. urceolate hairy, Fl. umbelled, Leaves 4 ovate 
5397 Anth. bearded included. Cor. globose much less than colored calyx. Leaves 3 with a membranous edge 
5398 Anth. 2 horned included. Cor. axill. solitary. Leaves 3 ovate cordate ciliated 
5399 Anth. bearded included, Style exserted. Cor. camp, smooth, Fl. term. sol. Leaves 3 lin. Branches hairy 
5400 Anth. bearded, Leaves 3 linear hispid, Fl. umbelled, Cal. rough 
5401 Anth. bearded. Cor. camp, smooth. Leaves 4 pubescent ciliated 
5402 Cal. 4-cleft, Cor. linear smooth urceolate with a recurved limb. Capsule hairy 
5403 Anth. bearded included. Flowers racemose. Leaves 6 clustered 
.5404 Anth. bearded. Leaves 4 ciliated, Fl. umb. Cal. navicular ciliated at end 
5405 Anth. bearded perforated. Leaves 4, Stem angular downy. Cor. narrow obovate 
5406 Anth. bearded. Leaves 4, Cal. appressed. Cor. linear pubes. with a very short recurved limb. Caps, hairy 
5407 Anth. bearded. Leaves 4, Cal. appressed. Cor. linear pubescent, Capsule smooth [smooth 
6408 Anth. bearded. Leaves 4, Cal. appressed. Cor, linear pubes. with an oval tube and very short limb. Caps, 
5409 Leaves obov. lane, beneath, beyond the nerves smooth, Cal. 4-cleft, Fl. urceol. 8-androus 
.5410 Leaves pubescent beneath. Calyx 4-fid, Cor. with a globose tube 
5411 Leaves oval pubescent, Fl. term, aggregate nodding 
5412 Leaves beneath densely downy, Cal. 4-parted, Tube of cor. oval 
5413 Leaves linear obtuse with cartilaginous teeth. Flowers 5-cleft decandrous 
5414 Leaves perfoliate 
5415 The only species 
5416 The only species 
5417 Leaves obovate oblong viscous, Fl. racemose. Fruit with 2 or 3 wings longer than stalk 
.5418 Leaves lane, narrowed at both ends viscid. Racemes branched. Fruit always with 2 wings length of stalk 
5419 Leaves obi. mucronate entire, Fl. term, sessile 
5420 Leaves lanceolate narrowed at each end. Branches 3-cornered, Fruit with narrow wing? 
5421 Leaves oblong lanceolate with revolute edge, rather clammy, Flowers in short racemes 
5422 Unarmed, Leaves subsessile ovate acute at each end 
5423 Branches spiny 
5424 Leaves subsessile lanceolate with terminal corymbs of flowers 
5425 Leaves stalked. Calyx hispid 
5426 Leaves sessile. Calyx smooth 
5427 Leaves lane. obi. acumin. 5 nerved and branches hispid, Cal. covered with entangled radiate hairs 
5428 Leaves lanceolate sessile. Tube of calyx ciliate scaly 
>5409 /fefv^ 5416 
5414 (I! 5425 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
Persia, and North America, and discovered this his genus It is a handsome biennial, which bears a profusion 
of shewy flowers bearing some distant resemblance to those of the Passion-flower. 
896. Jefferson/a. Named after Mr. Jefferson, the celebrated President of the United States. A very curious 
plant, remarkable for the peculiar mode of dehiscence of its capsule. 
897. Dodoncsa. So named in honor of Rambert Dodoens, professor of medicine, a famous botanist of the 
sixteenth century, author of Fragum Historia, 1552 ; and Pemptades, 1583. He was born at Malines, in 1518, 
^ ono ^" "^^^ species are ugly tropical shrubs, of neither use nor beauty. 
898. Lawsonia. In memory of Isaac Lawson, M. D. author of A New Voyage to Carolina, London, 1709. 
L. mermis is the Henna plant, with the leaves of which the Egyptian women dye their nails pink. It is of 
easy culture and propagation. 
899. Osbeckia. So named by Linnaeus, in honor of Peter Osbeck, a Swedish clergyman, member of the 
academy of Stockholm, and of the society of Upsal: author of a voyage to China and the East Indies, in 1751. 
Jt^ngUshed by Forster, in 1771. Little plants resembling Melastoma. Young cuttings strike freely under a 
nana-glass, ~ 
