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PHLOX MACULATA.
SPOTTED-STEMMED PHLOX. SPOTTED-STALKED LYCHNIDEA.
Pentandria Monogynia, Linn. Polemonia, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix deeply 5-cleft, prismatic. Corolla salver-form, border S-lobed, flat; lobes cune-
ate; tube more or less curved. Filaments unequal. Stigma trifid. Capsule
roundish-ovate, 3-celled; cells 1-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, with the margins scabrous; stem scabrous ; racemes
corymbose; teeth of the calix acute. Sp. PI.
Root perennial. Stems numerous, obscurely quadrangular, finely
spotted with numerous purplish specks, and slightly scabrous. Lower
leaves lanceolate, smooth on both sides, crowded, nerveless, opposite,
acuminate, attenuated at base, and sub-sessile, the petiolar supports
being connate. Costa conspicuously elevated on the under
surface, and depressed on the upper. The leaves towards the
apex of the flowering branches are broader, and cordate at base,
