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blackbird's quill, limb double, exterior 3-parted, nearly a 
fourth longer than the tube, segments egual, linear, narrow, 
involuted, acute, interior 3-parted, reversed, firmer than the 
outer, irregular, bilabiate, lateral segments rather the 
shortest of the three, narrowed downwards, lanceolately 
linear, the centre one or dip-piece (the nectary of Linneus) 
projected on a long narrow linear unguis or footpiece, 
lamina or blade broad, obcordate, didymously lobed, lobes el- 
liptic, diverging upwards. The two ercrescences at the sum- 
mit of the germen, short, connate, roundish, yellow; these 
are common to the whole order, and are supposed by Mr. 
Brown to be imperfect stamens. Filament nearly twice the 
length of the lip-piece, robust, channelled, slightly tapered, 
of the same colour as the corolla. Anther double, scarlet, 
scarcely i of an inch long, linear, sagittate at the base, ad- 
nate for about ¿ parts of its length. Style not much thicker 
than the thread of the silkworm, very tough, little longer 
than the stamen. Stigma small, green, funnel-form, tri- 
angular. 
Reguires to be kept in the tan-bed of the stove; to 
which beauty, singularity, and long succession of blossom, 
render it a valuable acguisition. 
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