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CUNILA COCCINEA. 
Scarlet-flowered Cunila. 
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA (DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Linn.) 
Nat. Ord. LABI ATM. 
Gen. Char. — Calyx cylindraceus, 5-dentatus, fauce villosus. Corolla tin. 
gens; labio superiore erecto, piano, emarginato. Stamina 2, sterilia.— 
Pers. 
Cunila coccinea ; foliis obovatis integerrimis glabris, coroUis pubescen- 
tibus. 
C. coccinea, Nutt. MSS. 
A slender, glabrous, twiggy plant, of about 18 inches in height, with branches 
scarcely quadrangular. Leaves rather distantly placed, in opposite pairs, 
obovate, very obtuse, scarcely petiolated, glabrous, entire, obscurely S- 
nerved, dotted, especially beneath. 
Flowers springing from the axils of the upper leaves, solitary, or two toge- 
ther from a branching peduncle, each pedicel very short, and with a 
small linear bractea at its base. Calyx subcylindrical, tapering slightly 
towards the base, enlarged towards the extremity, with 10 striae, nearly 
glabrous, 2-lipped; upper lip with 3 small teeth, lower one with 2 larger 
ones, all erect ; throat with a circle of white hairs. Corolla thrice the 
length of the calyx, club-shaped, pubescent, of a brilliant scarlet colour, 
yellowish beneath, 2-lipped, upper lip nearly plane, emarginate, lower 
one trifid, the teeth nearly equal. Stamens 4, didynamous, as long as 
the corolla; anthers all fertile. Pistil: Germens 4, situated upon a large 
green gland. Style filiform, much longer than the corolla. Stigma bi- 
fid, its divisions unequal. 
" Cunila coccinea,'' Mr H. Shepherd thus wote to me, 
when he communicated the specimens from which the annexed 
design was made, " was so named by Mr Nuttall, from a 
dried specimen brought by Mr Ware to Philadelphia from 
Florida. Seeds taken from that plant are what I have now 
raised and brought to flower. I believe Mr Nuttall never 
saw it in a living state." 
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