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leaves opposite, sessile, clasping tlie stem, broad at
the base, cordately ovate, tapering to a slender point,
much veined the veins branching, but scarcely con-
picuous. Flowers paniculately branching: Panicles
leafy, more or less clothed with glandular hairs, the
i^per leaves and bractes lanceolate, taper-pointed.
Peduncles upright, stiff, thickly clothed with hairs,
which are all tipped with a brown gland. Calyx
5-paited nearly to the base, segments nearly equal,
broadly lanceolate, acute, spreading, also clothed
hairs. Corolla tubular at the base,
mtlatecl and campanulate towards the mouth, sliehtlv
bearded inside, and thickly clothed with glandular
hairs on the outside, white tinged with blush, 2-lipped
gaping upper lip 2-lobed, lower one 3-lobed; lobes
ovate, bluntish Stamens 5 ; 4 producing anthers:
filaments smooth, inserted in the middle of the corolla
and decun-ent down the tube, twisting round each
other at the points, 2 longer than the others: anthers
diverging, bearded at the back:
sterile filament rather longer than the others, flat
bioadest at the point, from which it is bearded with
long spreading white hairs about half-way down, the
hairs a little reflexed. Germen pyramidal, smooth
and glossy Style smooth, about the length of the
stamens, the point bent forwards, and terminated by
a small blunt Stigma. ^
Mr. Nuttall m the Arkansa territory of North America,
and has been lately introduced to our collections; the
plant from which mir drawing was taken, was received
last autumn from New York, by Mr. Anderson, of the
h ”®® /If" P’ it sent
T''®® i“ the common garden
sod , and cuttings, planted under hand-glasses strike
K '’" Section, as has been dio “n"e 'Jb y Kunth, rin= Shies mSyono, fp«si sa
the character by which Chelone and Pentstemon 4 r e