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HELICTERES verbascifoUa. 
, Mullein4eaved Buttm^Wood. 
IfONADELPHIA DBCANimiA, 
Nat. ord. BoMBACEic. Kunth. diss. malv. 
HELIC TERES L.— Calyx tubulosus, 8ub-5-fidu8. Petala 5, lieulsto- 
unguiculata, supern^ subdentata. Stamina 5-10-15, long^ monadeli^a, 
iirceolo apici multifido pilis nonnullis sterilibus. Ovarium long^ stipitatuiii. 
Styli 5, basiconcreti. CarpellaS, l-locularia,poIysperoia, intiks dehMcentiay 
seep^ in spiram regulariter contorta, interdum recta. Smtna r^^mmmmj 
cotj^Iedonibus spiraliter convdlutis. Dec. prodr. 1 .475. 
¥L, verbascifoUa ; i'uliis coi(lati,> uruininatis stinalis toinentosis virentihus, 
pedunculis axillaribus paiiciHoris, oarpophoro loii^issimo. Dec. I. c. 470. 
H. verbascifolia. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 504. Link. (tinm. her. 2.200. 
Folia cordatu, acuminata, subsirnpliciter crenato-serrata, utrinque pdis, 
nunc simplicibus, mmc stellatis, sericea ; petioli hispidi; stipulce. suhulatcc, 
petiolis breviores. Flores axillares, corymbosi, pedunculati, foliis breviores. 
Calyx dense pubescens. Petala rejiexa, calyce d«plo breviora. tvboM 
stamineus hngissimus, filiformh^ glaber. 
A species of Helicteres introduced a few years since 
from the Brazils. It is a handsome shrub, remarkable for 
its brownish-red flowers, and the rosy, long, tiliform tube of 
the stamens. From H. jamakensis it is distinguished by 
the outline of its leaves, which are never angular or rhom- 
boid, as they often are in that species, by the greater 
breadth of its petals, and especially by the tube of its 
stamens, which is very long and quite smooth, never 
downy as in jamakensis. 
Our drawing was tfik^ at Mr. Colvill's Nursery, where 
the plant is ke^ in ^t«ool stove. 
Leaves cordate, acuminate, somewhat simply crenatC: 
serrate, on each side covered with hairs, which are gene- 
rally simple, but occasionally stellate; petwks hispid; 
•stipules subulate, shorter than the petioles. Flowers axil- 
lary, corymbose, stalked, shorter than the leaves. Calijx 
densely pubescent. Peto/«reflexed, twice as short as calyx. 
Tube of the stamens very long, filiform, smof»th. 
