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glandularly downy. Scapes resembling the petioles, but longer 
than they, shorter than the leaves, though rising above them 
on account of the horizontal or deflexed position of the blade. 
Cyme few-flowered, with deciduous dracts. Flowers large, white 
internally. Male flowers of four sepals; stamens numerous, ca- 
pitate ; female of five sepa/s; in both cases the two innermost 
are smaller and generally narrower: the outer are cordato-sub- 
rotund, externally convex or ventricose, more or less downy, 
tinged with blush. Fruit or capsule ;—the only one I have 
seen on the living plant ;—of a peculiar form, obliquely oval, 
almost terete, hispid and somewhat tuberculated, with two nar- 
row wings, and one large projecting one from the base, and 
there forming a crest, crenated at the edge: the whole fruit a 
good deal resembling the body and tail of a barn-door fowl. 
Stigmas large, green. 
Fig. 1. Fruit :—magnified. 
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