Order II. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
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8681 Spikes filiform. Leaves linear lanceolate subserrate 
8682 Spikes filiform. Leaves lanceolate serrate bluntish subsessile 
8683 Spikes filiform panicled. Leaves ovate serrate acute stalked 
8684 Hoary, Spikes cylindrical upright, Leaves ovate serrate subsessile. Stem erect round 
8683 Spikes solitary stalked, Leaves trifid cut 
8686 Decumbent hirsute, Leaves cut. Flowers spiked, Bractes linear very long squarrose 
8687 Spikes lax solitary, Stem hispid decumbent rooting, Leaves oblong cut-toothed entire at end 
8688 Spikes filiform. Leaves multifid cut, Stems numerous 
8689 Spikes filiform panicled. Leaves multifid cut. Stem subsolitary 
8690 Spikes filiform solitary, Leaves bipinnatifid 
8691 Hirsute, Spikes filiform solitary, Leaves serrate cut, Calyxes twice as long as fruit 
8692 Leaves oblong blunt downy beneath 
8693 The only species 
8694 Leaves subcordate tooth-serrate pubesc. with 2 glands at base, Corymb terminal hemispherical compact 
8695 Somewhat downy. Leaves cordate toothed, Cal. large 5-cornered viscid, Segm. of cor. on one side 
8696 Leaves subcordate entire, Cor. thrice as long as tube of calyx. Limb bilabiate 
8697 Leaves lanceolate quite entire 
8698 Leaves cordate obscurely angular. Panicles of branches dichotomous smooth 
8699 Leaves 5-lobed toothletted smooth. Panicle brachiate, Axillas woolly 
8700 Leaves lobed and undivided broad ovate entire. Panicle trichotomous 
8701 Leaves elliptical acute entire and calyxes downy. The calyx in fruit thickened colored. Corymbs clustered 
8702 Leaves oblong lanceolate entire. Petioles peduncles and calyx hairy 
8703 Leaves lane, or lin. lane, entire quite smooth. Corymbs axill. and term. Cal. 5-toothed and pedunc. smooth 
8704 Leaves ovate entire shining, Petioles peduncles and calyxes smooth 
8705 Leaves whorled long lanceolate entire smooth. Corymbs axillary few-flowered. Corollas very long 
8706 Leaves broad-ovate acuminate serrate subsessile downy beneath, Cal. .5-toothed, Cor. labiate 
8707 Leaves ovate entire toothed and angular. Peduncles axillary about 2-flowered 
8708 Leaves ovate blunt downy beneath ribbed rugose. Corymb trichotomous 
8709 Leaves oblong acute entire. Spines from the rudiments of petioles 
8710 Leaves obovate entire retuse shining. Peduncles axillary about 1-flowered 
8711 Unarmed, Leaves cordate ovate acute toothed. Racemes l-sided 
8712 Leaves stalked cordate crenate smooth 
8713 Leaves ovate. Flowers thirsoid 
8714 Branches round, Leaves oblong acuminate entire. Racemes pendulous, Calyxes toothed 
8715 Branches round. Leaves elliptical emarginate blunt entire. Racemes erect, Calyxes somewhat toothed 
8716 Branches square. Leaves obovate pubescent beneath somewhat toothed at end. Racemes nodding 
8717 Branches bluntly 4-cornered, Leaves ovate obi. toothed upwards pubesc. beneath Fl. bracteate pendulous 
8718 Branches square. Leaves ovate acuminate entire. Racemes nodding 
8719 Calyxes in fruit twisted, Leaves obovate oblong 
8720 Calyxes in fruit erect. Leaves oblong lanceolate acuminate 
8721 Spiny, Leaves 9 lines long 3 lines broad subserrate attenuated at each end, Teeth of cal. short subciliated 
George Volkamer, his brother, born 1616, died in 1693, wrote many academical dissertations, and a Flora' of 
Nuremberg, which was not published till after his death. The species are ornamental plants with the habit 
of the last genus. 
1327. Holmskioldia. A Theodore Holmskiold, a Dane, published some obscure works upon Cryptogamous 
plants. A handsome herbaceous stove plant, remarkable for the large calyxes of a bright red color. 
1328. Petrea. So called by Houstoun, in honor of Robert James Lord Petre, born in 1710, died in 1742. 
The famous Peter CoUinson, in a letter to Linnaeus, speaks of his death as the greatest loss that botany or 
gardening ever felt in this island. A climbing plant with blue flowers. 
1329. Citharexylum. From xiS-a^oc, a lyre (hence guitar), and |yA«v, wood. This tree produces a wood 
which in America is very useful for carpenters' work. It is very hard, and has been supposed applicable to 
making musical instruments, a mistake which arose thus ; C. melanocardium is called by the French Jide/e, 
from its faithfulness or durability in building ; the English have corrupted the name to fiddle-wood, as if it 
were used for making musical instruments, which is a mistake. {Miller.) 
Cuttings root in sand under a hand-glass. 
1330. Duranta. After Castor Durantes, physician to Pope Sixtus V., author of Herbarium, 1584, died in 
1590. The species grow and flower freely in loam and peat, and cuttings root in s;ind vm^or a hand-g'-"'"- 
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