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Stamina exserta. Filamenta fauci inserta, apice simplicia. Antherce sagittatae, medio stigmati cohaerentes.

Ovaria 2. Stylus 1, nliforaiis. Stigma incrassatum, obtusum.

Squama nullae hypogynae.

Folliculi

Habitus. Fruteoc erectus? oppositifolius, pilosus. Fa- nicula terminalis, brachiata, floribus corymbosis. Calycis foliola basi intus squama duplici. Corollas (semuncialis) tubus cylindraceus, intus medio barbatus.

Patria. Africa iEquinoctialis. (IT. Smeat/iiiian, in Herb. Banks.)

��VALLARIS. [Bur m. Ind. 51. Pergulariae sp. Linn.

Char. Corolla hypocrateriformis ; fauce tuboque esqua- matis, limbo 5fido obtuso.

Stamina exserta. Filamenta fauci inserta, brevissima, apice extus gibbere carnoso. Antherce sagittatae, medio stigmati cohaerentes.

Ovarium ^iloculare. Stylus filiformis. Stigma conico- ovaturn.

Squama 5, hypogynae, basi connatae, apicibus ciliatis. re*

Folliculi

Habitus. Frutex volubilis, oppositifolius. Pedunculi interpetiolares, dichotomi. Flores corymbosi, suaveolentes.

Patria. India Orientalis.

Obs. This is the Flos Pergulanus of Rumphius, which Linnaeus considered as the first species of his genus Pergu- laria : it does not, however, belong to the same order with the plant that afforded his generic character, and to which the name has been since generally applied.

��PARSONSIA. [Echitidis sp. Jacq. et Swartz.

Char. Corolla infundibuliformis, fauce tuboque esqua- matis, limbo 5partito, recurvo, laciniis aequilateris.

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