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GLOBULARIA longifolia. 
Madeira Globularia. 2 
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“TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LYSIMACHIE. Jussieu gen. 95. Div. III. Genera Lysima- 
chiis affinia. ea dy is 
GiopuLariz. Lam. et Decand. fi. franc. ed. 3. 3. 427. 
_. Decand. théor. bot. ed.2..247.° 9 ~~ aj 
GLOBULARIA. Cal. partialis tubulosus, petsistens, 5-fidus. Cor. 
hypogyna, tubulosa, lobis 5 inequalibus. Stam. fundo corolle inserta. 
Germ. liberum, stylo stigmateque simplicibus. _ Semen solitatium, calyce ob- 
tectum: embryo rectus: radicula superior: albumen carnosum. YY Risk 
Flores in calyce communi polyphyllo super receptaculo paleaceo aggre- 
gati. Passim ex Jussieuio, Lam. et Decand. SS hee aes 
G. longifolia, caule fruticoso, foliis omnibus lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis, 
capitulis axillaribus. Solander in Hort. Kew.'1. 130.- — 
Globularia longifolia. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 589. Hort. Kew. ed: 2. 1. 222, 
Nouv. Duham. vol. 5.138. tab. 40. lott AL BH 19 : 
Globularia salicma. Lamarck encyc. 2. 733. 
Alypum Solandri quorundam. Lamarck in loc. cit. fp 
Alypum sive Herba terribilis. Sloane jam. 1.19. t. 5. fig. 8. 
Brutex tripedalis ramosus: rami teretes, longi, virgati, simplices, inferne. 
bastbus petiolorum exasperati, superne vestiti Foliis crebris, sparsis, line- 
ari-lanceolatis, ‘acutis, integerrimis, glabris, utringue lete virentibus, vix 
triuncialibus, bast attenuatis in petiolos breves. Pedunculi axillares, solita- 
vii, teretes, longitudine 8-lineares, terminati Florum capitulo. globoso. 
Calyces pilost. Corolle pallide cerulee: (Sloane calyces hirsutos uti semina 
essent proposuit.) Cal. communis polyphyllus: foliolis ovatis concavis, mar- 
gine villosis, persistentibus. Cal. proprius inferus, monophyllus, 5-partitus, 
laciniis equalibus, subulatis, erectis, et margine et dovso ciliatis. Cor. uni- 
versalis egualis: propria monopetala, ligulata: ungue longitudine calycis: 
marginibus parim involutis ; lamina linearis, longitudine tubi, apice trifida: 
laciniis equalibus obtusiusculis. Fil’. 4, capillaria, corolla param longiora, 
longitudine equalia, sed dua superné ungui corolle inserta, dua inferivs 
prope basin. Anthe. ovate, parve. Germ. oblongum, acutum. Stylus fili- 
formis, simplex, longitudine staminum. Stigma bifidum. Pericarpium nul- 
lum. Cal. persistens semen includens. Sem. unicum, oblongum. Recept. 
commune, conicum, paleaceum. Palewx longitudine calycis, lanceolate, su- 
perius ciliate, Solander MSS. 
GLoBULARIA has been separated by M. De Candolle into 
a sole order, its essential character proving incompatible 
with an arrangement in any of those divisions to which it 
approaches the nearest in general habit. The flowers are 
collected into a close head upon a chaffy receptacle within 
