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DURANTA Plumieri. 
Smooth Duranta. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. Viricrs. Jussieu gen. 106. Div. II. Flores spicati, in 
spicis alterni. 
VERBENACER. Jussieu in annal. du mus. 7. 63. Brown 
prod. 510. 
DURANTA. Cal. truncatus, sub5-fidus. Cor. tubo subcurvo, limbo 
5-fido subeequali. Stam. non exserta. Stig. 1. Bacca 4 nucibus 2-locu- 
laribus 2-spermis, calyce supra coarctato et persistente omnino tecta, certd 
non infera. Frutices ramis 4-gonis ; flores laxé spicati axillares aut termi- 
nales. Quibusdam spine axillares.. Juss. 1. c. 109. 
D. Plumieri, calycibus fructescentibus contortis. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 380. 
Duranta Plumieri. Jacq. amer. 186. t. 176. f. 76. Jacq. coll. suppl. 119. 
ic. rar. 8. t. 502. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 380. Hort. Kew. 2. 863. ed. 2. 4. 59. 
Arbuscula orgyalis ad biorgyalem, ramosa; rami longi, flexiles, rotun- 
daté 4-goni, villosi, cinerei. Fol. opposita, subrhombeo-elliptica, acuta, 
integra v. subintegra, modd supra medium obtuse et inequalitér serrata, dis- 
tantia, sesqui-biuncialia, obsoleté subvillosa presertim a parte prond, petiolum 
versiis attenuata: petiolus brevis, villosus. Flores paniculato-racemosi ; 
racemuli opposito-axillares terminalesque, pluri-multiflori, reclinati ; pedicelli 
Jiliformes, strictiusculi, per paria approximati, breviores flore, bracted villosd 
subulata ; ge imum racemult terminalis sepé in foliis binis azillare. Cal. 
inferus, tubulosus, persistens, lanuginosus, 5-angulosus, 5-dentatus, dentibus 
acutis, brevibus, erectis, equalibus, % parte brevior tubo corolla, facie in- 
terangulari.dorsali ceteris planiore sublatioreque. Cor. lilacino-v. subceruleo- 
allescens, bilabiato-hypocrateriformis, extis lanuginosus: tubus de calyce 
curvatus, diametro angusto, dorso subplanior, intis pilis capitatis viscosus 
 orificio transverse sublatiore : limbus semunciam  transversus,' obliquus, ultra 
medium 5-fidus, lacinie tsometre, obtusissime, levits eroso-crenulate, labii 
summi tres concolores patentissime, harum 2 laterales divaricate elliptica- 
obovate, media sublatior subtruncata ; labii imi duce erecto-patentes conver= 
entes feré duplo angustiores obovato-oblonge, utraeque lined saturate violaced 
Tauaitidinaliter per medium ducta. Stam. inclusa tubo: fil. sub base curvature 
tubi inserta, brevia, 2 longiora, in loco quinti rudimentum glanduloso-capi- 
tatum : anth, conniventes, ochroleuce, complanato-didyme. erm. glabrum, 
subrotundum, calyce omnind liberum: stylus virens, subbrevior ca lyce, su- 
perne flexus, per lentem visus striatus; stig. viride, oblique capitatum, verru- 
culosum. 
The present is clearly the same species as the Duranra 
Plumiert of Jacquin, and consequently that of the Hortus 
Kewensis, where his figure is quoted, We should think it 
also Plumier’s plant, but this fact being less evident, we 
have omitted the synonym. ‘The plant with very green 
branches and long lanceolate deeply, closely, and sharply 
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