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TEEDIA lucida. 
Glossy-leaved Teedia. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ScropuuLariz. Jussieu gen. 117. 
; ScropyuLarinz. Brown prod. 433. 
TEEDIA. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, obtusa. 
Stylus brevissimus persistens. Bacca 2-loc., polysperma. Rudolphi in 
Schrader’s journal. 2. 289. x 
Herbacea. Differt CarrantA, corolla non campanulatd laciniis acutis, 
sed hypocrateriformi laciniis obtusis ; stylo brevissimo persistente, nec calycem 
superante deciduo. Baccd, nec capsula. Id. loc. cit. 
T. lucida, foliis glabris. 
Teedia lucida. udolphi in loc. cit. Persoon syn. 2. 166. Hort. Kew. ed. 
2. 4. 47. 
Capraria lucida. Hort. Kew. 2. 353. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 324. 
Borckhausenia lucida. Roth cat. bot. 2. 56. 
Biennis? graveolens. Caulis ramosus 4-gonus angulis decursi petiolo- 
rum marginatis, internodiis brevioribus foliis, faciebus 2 oppositis alterné 
angustioribus. Folia opposita, remotiora, subbiuncialia, oblongo-ovata, acu- 
minata: petioli alati, semiamplexicaules, triplo breviores lamina vel magis. 
Panicul, foliose decussate, pedunculis oppositis axillaribus tetragonis trifloris 
sublongioribus foliis, pedicellis 2 extimis rard subdivisis; bracteee 2 lineari- 
attenuate appresse opposite ad basin trichotomie ; 2 minores subopposite 
decurrentes mododque florifere circa medium pedicellorum extimorum, una 
pauld altizs adnata aliera. Cal. herbaceus, % uncie altus, segmentis subulatis 
erectis. Cor. rosea, decidua; tubus subrectus purpurascens, pauld altior 
calyce, anticé prope basin intrusus, postice gibbosior, intus radtis pictus 5 ver= 
licalibus albis inequalibus preter tum brevissimum parallelis cum staminibus 3 
faux pilosa ; ‘limbus horizontalis, stella purpurea juxta faucem, laciniis ovatis 
obtusts, equalibus. Fil. alté inclusa tubo, brevissima: anth. didyme, ovato- 
subrotunda@ ; pollen ochroleucum. Pistillum totum viride, brevius staminibus : 
stigma subpileatum, converum, ellipticum, obliquum, transverse obsoletizs bifi- 
dum. Bacca globosa, nigra, magnitudine pisi majorts, basi cinctum calyce. 
A genus of the same natural order as the common Fig- 
worts (SCROPHULARIZ) of our own country, and partaking 
of the same disagreeable smell when rubbed or bruised. 
The present species, the only published one, is a native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was introduced by 
Mr. Masson in 1774. Recorded in the Hortus Kewensis as 
a biennial greenhouse plant, flowering from April to May. 
We are not aware that it has ever been figured in any other 
work. 
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