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PLATE DXXXVII.
ORIGANUM TOURNEFORTII.
Tournefort’s Origanum.
CLASS XIV. ORDER I.
DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds naked.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Strobilus tetragonus, spicatus, calyces colligens. Corollæ labium superius erectum: inferius 3-partitum: laciniis æqualibus.
Head of flowers four-sided, like ears of corn, containing the cups. The upper lip of the blossom is upright: the lower is three-parted, in equal segments.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.