I. 
224 FROM CONSTANTINOPLE, 
CHAP, the route between Constantinople and Rmtchuk, 
we found no less than yoz^r new species, besides 
other rare plants; a new Star of Bethlehem 
(Ornithogalum), a new Periwinkle (Vinca), 
a new Germander (Teucrium), and this 
new Speedwell (Veronica). Not to interrupt, 
therefore, the narrative, by allusions to these 
plants exactly as they occurred, we shall 
subjoin a list of all of them in the margin'; 
(l) A non-descript species of Ornithogalum, from four to six inches 
in height, with the radical bulb the size of a small chesnut ; the leaves 
from about a quarter to a third of an inch in breadth, but narrowing to- 
wards the base; the uppermost embracing the stem, and generally ex- 
tended a little beyond the flowers. We have called it Ornithogalum 
OLiGOPHTLLUM. OtmihogaXam folUs lanceolato oblongis scapo aquantibus. 
glabris ; corymho pauci/ioro ; Jilamentis tubulatis. 
A non-descript species of Germander, (Teucrium imn.) with straight 
•woolly stems, and very hairy elliptic-lanceolate blunt leaves, about an indi 
in length, some whereof are entire, and others with two broad scollops on 
each side, towards the point; the flowers bearded at the mouth, and about 
an inch long. Two other species of Teucrium have been already de- 
scribed; the Teucrium HETKROPHTLLUM of Z-'^er-tVicr and Willdenow, ti 
Madeira ■^Xaxit; and the Teucrium heterophyllum oi Cavanillcs, pub- 
lished in the Sixth Volume of his Icones Plantarum^ ,a plant from South- 
, America ; from both of which our Teucrium is manifestly distinguished, 
by the flowers not being pendant; by the shortness of the peduncles; 
by the different form and hairiness of the leaves ; and from the latter 
species more particularly, in having the upper leaves not deeply three- 
lobed, but bluntly crenate. We have called this new sj^ecies Teucrihm 
sessifolium. 
TeiicrmTnJ''iliishirsutissessiiibus obtusis, infcrioribus lauceolatis inte- 
gerrimis, superioribus bructcisque crenads, clliptico-lajiccolalis ; Jloribus 
axilluribus solitariis ; pedunculis breiisiimis, 
A non- 
