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HÉSPERIS speciósa.
Beautiful Rochet.
Linnean Class and Order. T E ÏR A D Y N A M IA S IL IQ U O b A .
Naturai Order. C R U C IF E RÆ . D C . syst. nat. v. 2. p . 13!).
S d b o k d o I I . N O ÏO R H IZ E Æ . Cotyledones planoe, incumbentes.
Radicula dorsalis. Semina ovata, immarginata.
Tribus V I I . N /S FM R J îEÆ seu Notorhizem Sdiquosæ. Siliqua bi-
locularis, bivalvis, dehiscens, elongata, linearis teres aut tetragona stylo abbreviato,
aut rarissimè breviuscula stylo elongato. Disscpimentum lineare.
Valvulæ elongatæ planæ, concavoe aut cariiiatæ, omnes dehiscentes. Semina
in loculo quoque uniserialia, ovata aut oblonga, subtriquetra, immargi-
nata. Cotyledones plana;,incumbentes, (o H ). D C . syst.veg. nat. m2. j>.438.
H E S P E R I S . Calyx clausus, bisaccatus. Petala unguiculata, limbo
patente obtuso aut emarginato. Stamina libera, tetradynama. Gianduia:
virides, subannulatæ, ad basin staminum latcralium. Siliqua stricta, subtetragona
aut compressa : stigmatibus 2 erectis sessilibus conniventibus terminata.
Semina oblonga, subtriquetra, pendula, X-serialia. Cotyledones
planæ, incumbentes (o |1 ).—-Herbæ aranace, biennes percnnesve; radice fin-osa
; caule tereti ereeto aut diffuso. Eolia ovato-lanceolata aut oblonga, dentata
aut lyrato-runeinata. Plantæ pleroequc p ilis a id s lympliaticis simplici-
bus ramosisve, aliis proesertim ad apicem p ilis glandulosis instructoe et^nde
quasi bituminosa:. Racemi terminales, ebraeteati, erecti. 1 edicelli f l i j o i -
mes, post anthesin non incrassati. Plores albi aut purpurascentes, soepe versicolores,
interdùm odorati. DC. syst. veg. nat. v. 2. p. 44^-
Sect. I I . D e i l o s m a . Petalorum limbi obovati læti.
H . speciosa, caule suftrutescente ramoso basi squamoso, rarnis foliis scapis-
que stellato-pubesccntibus, foliis inferioribus spatliulatis obtusiusculis
iiitogcrrìmis aut raro subdentatis basi valde attenuatis : caulinis tìoriferis
oblongo-ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis sessilibus, pediccllis calycibus
duplo brevioribus, petalorum laminis obovatis, siliqua tetragona villosissima,
stigma capitata apice indentata.
Stem suffrutescent at the base, branching ; branches short,
clothed at the base with numerous rigid taper-pointed white
scales, and with the leaves, scape, and peduncles, thickly
clothed with stellate bunches of hairs. Leaves alternate, spathulate,
or spathulately lanceolate, bluntish at the point, very
much attenuated towards the base ; lower ones subdentate ;
those on the scapes or flower-stems, sessile, ovate or oblongly
ovate, tapering to a long slender point, broadest and rounded
at the base. Scape simple, leafy, terminated by a close corymb
of flowers, which soon lengthens out to a raceme, floweis
of a rosy purple, about the size of Hcsperis mütvonüïis. I cdi-
cles very short, rather more than half the length of the calyx.
Calyx of 4 deciduous sepals, with membranaceous margins,
unequal at the base, clotlicd with a short white: pubescence ;
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