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MASSONIA grandiflora. 
Large-flowered Massonia. 
HEXANDRIA monogynia. 
Nat. ord. Aspiiodeleje. 
MASSONIA. Supra vol. 9.fol. 694. 
M. grandiflora ; foliis flaccidis subrotundo oblongis, obtusis, carnosis, nervosis 
glaberrimis, laciniis perianthii patenti-reflexis obtusis staminibus paulo 
brevioribus, melle copiosissimo. 
Folia bina, humi prona, 9-uncialia, subrotundo-oblonga, carnosa, glaber- 
lima, obtusa, ad basin attenuata, etpaululum rubicunda. Capitulum (race- 
mus depressus) subsessile, in sinu foliorum, circiter 30 -florum, depressum, 
diametro 2 unciarum; bracteis magnis, imbricatis, ovatis, acuminatis, glabris 
obvallatum. Flores cum pedicellis unam unciam longi, bracted ovato-acumi- 
nate apice viridi suffulti. yEstivatio serid duplici imbricata. Perianthium 
infundibulare, tubo terete carnoso, glabro, albo, melle copiosissimo amariusculo 
repleto; limbo exact! 6-partito, laciniis ovatis obtusis margine membranaceis, 
albis, medio viridibus, staminibus paululdm brevioribus, basi intrusis: interi- 
oribus angustioribus. Stamina 6, carnosa, basibus connata in annulum orem 
tubi coronantem, erecta, cestivatione conniventia; filamenta viridia, subulata; 
anther® anticce, adnata, biloculares; loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 
Pollen luteum, sub lente fortissimo fllis paucis hie illic cohterens; granulis 
minutis glabris oblongis siccitate depressis medio foveatis ; humectatis sub- 
rotundo-oblongis, superjicie laevigata, foved nulld, demum, si non dehisceant, 
rugulosis (non autem areolatis). Ovarium superum, obovatum, hexangulare, 
triloculare, polyspermum, inter loculos lacunosum, ovulis parvis seriebus 2v.3 
placentd insertis, horizontalibus. Stylus subulatus, staminum longitudine, 
spiralis, 3-sulcatus. Stigma punctum simplex. 
We scarcely know whether this plant is more than a 
variety of M. longifolia figured in volume 9, p. 694 of this 
work. It agrees with that species in habit, and in the 
general arrangement of its parts, but it seems to be mate¬ 
rially distinguished by the form of the divisions of the peri¬ 
anthium, by the greater magnitude of all its parts, and by 
the copious secretion of honey which the tube of the 
