- 
-CUNILA COCCINEA. 
- Scarlet-flowered Cunila. 
‘DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA (DIAN DRIA _ MONOGYNIA, Linn.).— 
Nar. Onp. LABIATA. 
Gen. ica ating eylindraceus, 5-dentatus, fauce villosus. Corolla rin- 
gens; labio superiore erecto, plano, emarginato. Stamina 2, sterilia.—. 
Pers. | 
Cutie coccinea ; foliis obovatis. integerrimis. glabris, corollis pubescen- 
tibus. 
C. coecinea, Nurr. 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, a entire, obscurely 3 | 
nerved, dotted, especially beneath. e 
Flowers springing from the axils of the upper os solitary, or two toge- 
ther from a branching peduncle, each pedicel very short, and witha 
small linear bractea at its base. Calyx subcylindrical, tapering slightly _ 
- towards the base, enlarged towards the extremity, with 10 strie, 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 alarge 
| os green gland. Style filiform, much lone than the corolla.” pe bi- 
— fiid, its sivastone unequal. : : > 
« Cunila coccinea,” Mr H. SHEPHERD thus wrote to me, 
when he communicated the specimens from which the annexed 
desion was made, “ was so named by Mr Nurratt, 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 fower. I believe Mr NuTrau never 
saw it in a living state.” | 3 
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