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COTYLEDON decussata. 
CrosS'leavfid Cot^don. . 
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Nat. ord. Crassi i. vt i i.. 
COTYLEDON L. — Cali/x .O-purtitiis. Corolla moDopctaia, tubulorti; 
5-fida. Stamina 1 0, rarius 5, coroUae ijiserta. Germing 5. CaptuUe 5. 
Herbee aut SuiFrutices. Folia opposita aut altema, interBimpuuiata. Floret 
terminales, corymbosi, aut spicqti, Juss. gen. 207. 
C. decussata; fruticosa, foliis concinn^ decussatis subteretibiu inncnmatb 
glaucis, floribus paniculatis pendulis. Bot. Mag. 2518. 
Cotyledon folib angustis oppositi% cum limbo puipnreo, floribas pendula. 
Burnt, afr. t. 22./. I. | 
C. papillaris. Haw. St^l. succ. P'^^- revis. tuffi. 20 mm Thmbergu. 
Our drawing of this species of Cotyledon was made from 
the collection of Mr. Hood, of South Lambeth, in May 
1824, a figure having been at: the same time furnished for 
the Botanical Magazine, a circumstance of which we were 
not at the time aware. 
Not having seen either plant or specimen, we are 
unable to offer any original description of the species. 
In the work to which we have already alluded it is thus 
described. 
Stem shrubby, erect, but very little branched. Leaves 
opposite crosswise, sessile, fleshy, nearly cylindrical, 
somewhat flattened on the upper side, ,i,daucous, or even 
hoary, narrowed at both ends, varying somewhat in shape, 
and terminated with a dark purple mucro. Common 
peduncle terminal, erect, smooth, lialf a foot long, purple, 
nearly naked, or furnished with a pair ot smaller leaves 
only, terminated by a panicle of many pendulous red 
flowers. Calyx 6-toothed, four timei shorter than the tube 
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