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TURRALA ?* pinnáta. 
Pinnated Turrea. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MrriacEx Juss.—(Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 120.) 
TURRZA Linn.—Calyz 5-fidus. Petala 5, longissima, ligulseformia. 
Stamina 10, tubo longissimo apice 10-fido, antheris ad loborum basin, aut 
inter eos insertis. Stylus 1. Stigma crassiusculum. Capsula 5-locularis, 
loculis dispermis, valvis medio septiferis.—De Cand. prodr. 1. 620. 
T. foliis pinnatis, tubo staminum 10-dentato dentibus bifidis. Wallich plant. 
asiat. rar. vol. 2. p. 21. t. 119. 
Frutex (arbor?). Rami cylindrici, cortice glabro, pallidé fuscescente. 
Folia petiolata, valde approximata, sparsa, undique patentia, impari-pin- 
nata, 2-3-juga ; foliola opposita, patentia, brevissime petiolata, lanceolata, 
attenuato-acuta, integerrima, eleganter undulata, basi parüm cordata et 
inequalia, lobis rotundatis, altero breviore, rigida, subcarnosa, haud punc- 
tata, utrinque secus tractus vasorum pilosula, suprà atroviridia, lucida, 
subtús costá nervisque alternis elevatis, leviter venulosa ; inferiora pollicaria, 
exteriora sensim majora, impar fere 3-pollicare.  Petiolus communis teres, 
pilosulus, basi parüm dilatatus, supra sulcatus, sesquipollicaris, desinens in 
rachin rectam, teretem, sulcatam; partiales. brevissimi, teretes, pilosult. 
Stipule nulle. Pedunculi solitarii, axillares,- teretes, pilosi, pollicares, 
post expansionem florum decurvi, apice gerentes flores aliquot fasciculatos, 
pedicellatos, pallide roseos, inodoros, suffultos pedicellis brevibus, clavatis, 
sulcatis. Bracteole pauce, sparse, lanceolate, acute. Calyx profunde 
5-partitus, pilosus; lacinie foliacee, ligulate, inequales, basi conniventes, 
apice acutiusculá patule. Corolla tubulosa, sesquipollicaris, limbo patente. 
Petala 5, plana, lanceolata, subinequalia, obtusiuscula, patentia, subtüs 
subsericea, basi angustatá desinentia in ungues longos, connatos in tubum 
cylindricum, gracilem, sulcatum, limbum equantem, calyce duplo longiorem, 
basi intüs auctum tubulo carnoso, brevissimo, truncato, ovarium et basin 
styli ambiente. Filamenta 10, glabra, unita in tubum carnosum, cylindricum, 
unguibus corolle adnatum, superne liberum, erectum, limbo breviorem, fauce 
parúm dilatatum, 10-dentatum, dentibus brevibus, subulatis, versus apicem 
seorsúm dorso appendiculatis denticulo subulato, brevi, patente. Anthere 10, 
* Georgio a Turre, an Italian Botanist, visited Candia, and published a 
Catalogue of the Garden at Padua in 1662. He was also the author of an 
indifferent Historia Plantarum, in folio, in 1685. 
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