Flora of Mauritius And the Seychelles: a Description of the Flowering Plants ...
Flora of Mauritius And the Seychelles: a Description of the Flowering Plants ...
John Gilbert Baker
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1. STACHYTAEPHBTA, Vahl. Calyx tabular, persistent, compressed, oblique at the apex and minutely 4* toothed. Corolla with a long straignt or curved cylindrical tube and 5 rounded spreading subequal divisions. Stamens 4, didyna- mons, mcluded, the upper two without anthers. Ovary 2-celled ; cells 1-ovulate ; stigma capitate. Fruit included in the persistent calyx- tabe, splitting up into two pyrenes. — Herbs, with simple opposite leaves, the flowers in very long spikes inserted in the hollows of... a thickened cylindrical rachis. Vistbib. Species 40, nearly all Tropical American. Sabglabrons, with blue flowers .1.8. inbica. Fikie, with red flowers * S. mtjtabilis. 1. S* indict Fahl; Schauer in DC. Trod, xi. 564. Annual, shrubby at the base, nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves membranous, obovate or oblong, acute or obtuse, sharply serrated, narrowed gradually into a short petiole. Spikes terminal, glabrous, |-1 foot long, the dilated rachis ^ in. thick; bracts linear or lanceolate, adpressed; flowers inserted in deep hollows of the rachis." Calyx compressed, bifid, indistinctly 4-toothed, ^-^ in.
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