LYTHRUM. 
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strongly ribbed smooth, the outer teeth half-ovate or lanceolate ; 
pet. 6 obovate the length of the whole cal. ; stam. 12, 6 very 
short, 6 longer more or less exserted. — Ten. FI. Nap. iv. 255. 
t. 142; DC. iii. 82; WB. ii. 6; Seub. FI. Azor. 47. no. 353. 
L.junceum Buch ! 197. no. 372 ; Sol. MSS. ! Prim. 32. L.jlexu - 
osum Holl ! in J. of Bot. i. 21, 41. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, 
ccc ; PS. reg. 2, rr. In watery springy places on seacliffs, in 
beds of ravines, about springs and in hollows amongst hills and 
mountains in Mad. everywhere ; in PS. only at the F onte das 
Pombas and in beds of streamlets beyond Camaxa. May-Oct. 
— An altogether larger pi. than L. Hyssopifolia L., with stouter 
longer often greatly elongated trailing st., broader 1. and larger 
handsome fl. St. sharply 4-angular scarcely branched except at 
the base, 1-4 ft. long slender weak and trailing far amongst the 
surrounding bushes or herbage, purplish and thickly leafy up- 
wards, light brown naked and woody downwards, flexible 
throughout. Whole pi. quite smooth. L. dull rather than 
glaucous gr. varying much in breadth but always broadest close 
to or at the base and thence very gradually contracting upwards 
so as to be rather ligulate than ianceolate, 6-9 or 10 lines long, 
1-3 broad, the lower broader and subobtuse, the upper narrower 
acute, all quite entire. Fl. crowded towards the leafy ends of 
the branches, conspicuous, bright rose-purple, 4-5 or 6 lines long 
or more than twice the size of those of L. Hyssopifolia L., with 
the outer teeth of cal. mostly broader and shorter. Pet. dis- 
tinctly clawed 3-3£ lines long, 1-li broad, erose and crumpled 
at the edges. Stam. always 12, 6 long more or less exserted, 6 
short included, the shorter opposite the broad inner membranous 
cal. -teeth : hence it is the 6 longer which are wanting in the 
preceding sp. Anthers bright chrome-y. Caps, shorter than the 
cal. -tube. Seeds often abortive. 
Apt to vary considerably in most of the above characters, 
often becoming, late in the summer or aut., almost shrubby with 
very long woody branches and smaller fl., which have narrower 
outer cal. -teeth and the style and longer stani. almost included 
or only just apparent in their throat. It is an elegant pi., 
adorning with its bright rose fl. moist and plashy places in the 
mountains everywhere. 
L. acutangulum Lag. Gen. et Sp. 16. no. 211 is probably this 
sp., but his L. Jlexuosuni no. 210 seems distinct. 
