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Ovarium deeply 4-lobed. Style filiform, glabrous, as long
as the stamens, curved. Stigma of two acute lobes, the posterior
one very short.
A very interesting and elegant herbaceous species, a
native of dry stony hills in Armenia, and but very recently
introduced to our gardens. Tournefort, the original discoverer
of the species, has briefly noticed it in his “ Corolla-
r ium f and it was afterwards described by Willdenow from
a dried specimen, under the name which we have adopted.
The plant is apparently quite hardy, is well adapted to
ornament rock-work, and may be increased with facility by
slips, as it sends forth a number of short leaf-shoots from
the root. We have observed no tendency in the plant to
become shrubby, as recorded hy Mr. Bentham in his elaborate
monograph of the Labiatce.
Onr drawing was taken in June last at the Chelsea Botanic
Garden, where the plant had been raised from seeds communicated
by M. de Fischer from the Imperial Botanic
Garden at St. Petersburg, in the spring of 1834.
The generic name is already explained at fol. 74.
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Calyx. 2. Portion of tbe corolla, with the stamens.
3. Upper lip of corolla. 4. Pistil.