This elegant species, a native of both the Indies, was cultivated here by Parkinson, who minutely describes it in his Parad terr. when speaking of the seed, he observes, "with us it will seldom come to flower, because our cold nights and frosts come so soone, before it cannot have comfort enough of the sun to ripen it."
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Teucrium Latifolium. Broad-Leav'd Shrubby Germander.
Class and Order.
Didynamia Gymnospermia.
Generic Character.
Cor. labium superius (nullum) ultra basin 2-partitum, divaricatum ubi stamina.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
TEUCRIUM latifolium foliis integerrimis rhombeis acutis villosis subtus tomentosis. Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 526. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 276.