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CALYCIFLOIl^E. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
A low creeping herbaceous plant, common along the 
skirts of mountain forests. Stipules linear. Peduncle in 
each alternate axil, very short, pubescent, 3-4-ilowered : 
flowers terminal, sessile, crowded, small. Calyx 4-partile 
with the divisions erect, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
deciduous, blue : tube longer than the calyx, ventricose 
near the throat: limb 4-partite with the lobes ovate, erect. 
Filaments length of the tube of the corolla: anthers linear. 
Style bi-fid. Berry size of a small cherry, blue, inflated, 
crowned with the calyx, 2-celled, many-seeded : seeds 
small. 
VII. Hoffmania. 
Calycine tube oblongo-tetragonal : limb 4-tooth- 
ed witii the teeth erect, acute. Corolla somewhat 
hypocrateriform ; tube very short ; limb 4-partite 
with the lobes lanceolate. Anthers 4, sessile acute 
erect connivent protruding. Capsule berried, in- 
dehiscent, crowned with the calyx, 2-cellcd : seeds 
numerous, minute. 
Named in honor of Maurice Hoffman, Professor of 
Botany at Altorff. 
1 HofFmania peduneulata. Peduncled Hoff ma- 
nia. 
Swartz , FI. bid. Occ. I. 242. t. 5. 
II A B. Alpine forests. 
FL. 
A herbaceous plant, 2-3 feet in height: branches hairy. 
Leaves pctiolate, opposite, decussating, ovate, attenuated 
at both ends, entire, shining, rough with minute asperities, 
hairy. Stipules very short, acute, thick, hairy. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, many-flowered : flowers slightly pedi- 
celled. Tube of the corolla red ; limb deeply 4-partite : 
divisions lanceolate, striated with red and tipt with yellow. 
Anthers linear, yellow. Ovary oblongo-tetragonal : style 
subulate: stigma obtuse. Capsule berried, subtetragonal, 
bi-valvcd, many-seeded, when ripe scarlet.: seeds black. 
This must be a rare plant, or probably from changes 
in the climate, has become so ; for I have net succeeded 
in finding it. 
