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GARDÔQUIA Hookeri.
Carolina Cardoquia.
Linnean Class and Order. D I D Y N A M IA G Y M N O S P E R M I A .
Natu ra l Order. L A B I A T Æ . Juss. gen. p . 1 1 0 . T r ib . V . M e l i s s in e æ .
B entham lahiat. p . 3 6 5 .
G A RD O Q U IA , Calyx tu b u lo s u s , 1 3 -n e r v iu s , s u b in c u r v u s , o r e æ q u a l i v e l
o b liq u o , d e n tib u s b r e v ib u s r e c t is s u b æ q u a l ib u s v e l s u b b il a b ia t is . Corollæ
tubus lo n g é e x s e r tu s , r e c tu s v e l in c u r v u s , i n tù s n u d u s ; lim b u s b i la b i a tu s ,
l a b iu m s u p e r iu s e r e c tum s u b p la n u m em a r g in a tum , in f e r iu s s u b p a te n s , lo b is
o l a n i s m e d io la t io r e . Stamina 4 , s u b d id y n am a , in f e r io r ib u s lo n g io r ib u s
a x à a d s c e n d e n tia , a p ic e s u b d is t a n ti a , s u p e r io r a s u b in d e s te r il i a . Filamenta
e d e n tu l a . Antheræ b ilo c u la r e s , lo c u l i s d i s t in c t is p a r a lle lis v e l s u b d lv e rg e n -
t ib u s . S ty li lobi s u b æ q u a le s . Achenia s ic c a , læ v ia .
S u f f ru tic e s f ru tic e s v e ramosissimi foliosi, sæpè procumbentes. F lo r e s pulchri,
ccinei. B e n th am 1. c . p . 3 9 7 .
G . Hooheri, f ru t ic o s a , c a n e s c e n s ; fo liis o b o v a tis in te g e r r im is p la n is s u b a v e n i i s ,
p e d u n c u li s 1— 3 - flo ris b ib r a c te o l a ti s , c a ly c is la b io s u p e r io r e 3 - d e n t a to : fa u c e
in tù s v illis c la u s à .
G a r d o q u ia H o o k e r i. Bentham l. c. p. 4 0 1 .
C u n l la c o c c in e a . Hooker exot. Jl, 3. t. 163.
M e li s s a c o c c in e a . Spreng. syst. 2 . p. 2 2 4 .
A small upright, fragrant, branched shrub, ahout a foot or a
foot and a half in height. Branches slender, erect, minutely
hoary. Leaves obovate, pointed, or rarely obtuse, minutely
hoary and dotted on both sides, of a glaucous green, coriaceous,
attenuated at the base, a fourth of an inch in length.
Footstalks very short, compressed. Flowers axillary, solitary
or in threes, seated on a very short, clavate peduncle, which
is furnished at the base with 2 lanceolate acute, erect bractes.
Calyx tubular, nearly glabrous, with 13 ribs, thrice longer
than the peduncle, limb bilabiate, lower lip of 2 ovate-oblong
connivent teeth, upper one broad, truncate, with 3 slightly
prominent recurved teeth ; the throat closed with connivent
hairs. Corolla large, tubular, scarlet, thrice longer than the
calyx, copiously hairy externally; faux ventricose ; limb bilabiate,
with equal extended lips, upper one concave 2-lobed,
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