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Btigmas Innatel Capsule scarcely ^ by J in., memtranons, crowned by the accrescent 

 perianth. Seeds short-ellipHoid,— Col. Beddome's B. minima is reduced by inspection 

 of his figure merely. Heifer's No. 2584 is in fruit and is either this or some very 

 closely allied species. 



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. canarana, Miq, Anal. Bot Ind. iii. p, 18 ; pedicels and ovary gla- 

 "brous, sepals of the male J in, A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 356. B. rubella, Miq. 

 in PL Hohenack, No. 843, not of Ham. 



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Closely resembling the preceding species : but the leaves flower and fruit are 



rather smaller. The styles in B. canaraiia are combined "higher up (ex A, DC). , 



0. Ovary Swelled. Capsule membranous, globose, wingless. 



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Booistock small, fibrous. St^i 5-12 in., slightly dividing, with several leaves and 

 peduncles from all the axils, glabrous, weak. Leaves 2-3 in. diam., broad-orbicu- 



lar, cordate, subequal at the base, doubly serrate, very delicate, with weak si 

 pubescence above and on the nerves beneath ; petiole of the cauline leaves long, ^*'*^°' 

 ing 3-4 in. ; stipules less than \ in., lanceolate, glabrous. Peduncles repeatedly dicho- 

 tomous, with very many flowers ; bracts numerous, small, hyaline, subpersistent, ob- 

 long, ciliate or fimbriate, pedicels and young ovary with minute sparse lax pubescence. 

 Male: sepals 2,\ in., round; petals 0; stamens 20, much monadelphous, anthers 

 narrow-obovoid, connective not produced. Femaus : perianth of 4 segments, inner two 

 obovate, not very narrow; styles 3, stigmas lunate. Capsule i in. diam., ^^T^ 

 etactly globose, very inembranous, breaking up irregularly, wiriglessr^eerf* shortly 



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PlacentcB undivided. Capmle 3-c^llg 



with 3 tUn not very unequal wings, dehiscing by lines within the margins ot its 

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54, B. fibrosa, C. B. Qarke ; cauline leaves 2 orbicular se«3sile with 

 many peduncles from the axils of each. 



MoTJLMEiH ; on limestone rocks ; Parish. \ V _-„ 



. Booistock fibrous, no root-leaves in the dried examples ; plant 6-10 in., g^^^f?" 

 or nearly so. Leaves orbicular, larger 6-8 in. diam., nearly entire. -P^^^^^^.'^rl:. 

 stout, as many as 7 from one axil, minutely sparsely puberulo-pubescent ; bracts lou 

 aceous; lower | in., elliptic, glabrous, often petioled; upper smaller. Mat^ : s®P^^ ' 

 i m., ovate; petals 2, oblong, smaller ; stamens about 10, nearly free, ^^therssaj . 

 obovoid, connective not produced. Femam : perianth of 3 segments ; styles d, ^ 

 bmed less than half their length, each dividing into two curved bre""^"" ^^^ 

 f by i in. including the wings, upper margin of the broader wing ho] 

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