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MELI'TTIS* * 
Linnean Class ancl Order. Didyna'mta f, Gymnospe'rmia}:. 
Natural Order. Laeia'ta§, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 110. — Sm. Gram, 
of Bot. p. 99. ; Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 63. — Bentham, in Bot. Regist. 
(1829). — Lindl.Syn. p. 196.; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p.239. — 
Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 439. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 528. — Mack. FI. 
Hibern. p. 209. — Verticillata of Linnaeus. — Syringales; 
suborder, Primulosa; sect. Menthina ; type, Menthacea or 
Labiata ; subtype, Nepetida ; Burn. Outl. of Bot. v. ii. pp. 900, 
958, 968, & 973. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, bell-shaped, large, slightly 
angular, somewhat 2-lipped, with 3 or 4 broad lobes. Corolla 
(fig. 2.) ringent, tube much narrower than the calyx ; throat a little 
dilated; upper lip erect, rounded, entire, slightly concave ; lower 
lip spreading, in 3, deep, blunt lobes, the middle one largest, in- 
versely heart-shaped. Filaments (fig. 3.) 4, awl-shaped, straight, 
shorter than the upper lip of the corolla, the two intermediate ones 
shortest. Anthers 2-lobed, converging in pairs, forming a double 
cross. Germen (fig. 3, a.) in 4, blunt, downy lobes. Style (fig- 5.) 
thread-shaped, reaching to the anthers (see fig. 3). Stigma cloven, 
pointed. Seeds (fig. 6.) 4, oval, small, in the bottom of the open 
unaltered calyx. 
The large, bell-shaped calyx, with 3 or 4 broad lobes ; and the 
much exserted corolla, with the upper lip nearly flat and entire; 
and the lower one of 3, rounded, nearly equal lobes, will distinguish 
this from other genera in the same class and order. 
One species British. 
MELI'TTIS MELISSOPHY'LLUM. Melissa-leaved Bastard 
Balm. Large-flowered Bastard Balm. 
Spec. Char. Leaves oblong-egg-shaped, or somewhat heart- 
shaped. Upper lip of the calyx with 2 or 3 teeth. 
Engl. Bot. t. 577. — Curt. FI. Lond. t. — Jacq. FI. Aust. v. i. p. 18. t. 26. — 
Linn. Sp. PI. p. 832.— Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd edit.) p. 264. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. iii. 
pt. I. p. 157. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. p. 643 ; Engl. FI. v. iii, p. 111. — With. (7th ed.) 
v. iii. p. 723. — Lindl. Syn. p. 205. ; 2nd edit. p. 202. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 280. — 
FI. Devou. pp. 102 & 146. — Melittis grandiflora, Engl. Bot. t. 636. — Sm. FI. 
Brit. v. ii. p. 644. ; Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 112. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 386. — 
Melissa Fuchsii, Ray’s Syn. p. 242. — Melissa Fuchsii , Rore purpurto ; and 
M. Fuchsii, /lore albo, Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 690. 
Localities. — I n woods, coppices, and hedges, in the South and South-west 
of England.— Cornwall ; Road-side between Liskeard and Callington: Dr. 
Withering. Near Liskeard on hedges in the road to Lostwithiel : Dawson 
Turner, Esq. — Devonsh. Woods about Totness : Ray. In the Southams, par- 
ticularly in Hempston Wood: Mr. Cornish. Dartington Woods; Canonteign 
Woods, in the road to Brampford-Speke, beyond Sir Stafford Northcote’s Pillars 
on the left hand, not far from the blacksmith’s shop: Mr. Weston. A small 
Fig. 1. Calyx. — Fig. 2. Corolla. — Fig. 3. Stamens, Germen, Style, and Stigma. — 
Fig. 4. A single Stamen. — Fig. 5. Style and Stigma. — Fig. 6. Seed. — Figs. 3. 4, & 5, 
a little magnified. 
• From Melitta, Gr. a Bee; it being productive of honey, and grateful to that 
insect. Withering. 
t See folio 31, note t. t Ibid, note J, 
5 See folio 94, a. 
