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PLATYSTIGMA LINEARIS. MLINEAR-LEAVED 
PLATYSTIGMA. 
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Class and Order. 
PoLyANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—PapavERAcEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala 4, 5. Stamina 
numerosa.  Filamenta filiformia. Anther@ lineares, bilo- 
culares, lateraliter dehiscentes. Stigmata 3, ovata, acuta, 
erecto-divergentia. Capsula oblonga, basi attenuata, 1- 
locularis, 3-angularis, 3-sulcata, 3-valvis, ab apice ad basin 
dehiscens : valvulis conduplicatis, margine in placentis 
filiformibus productis. Semima numerosa, minuta, ovoidea, 
nigra, levissima, nitida. Benth. 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
PLatystiema * linearis. 
Pratystigma linearis. Benth. in Hort. Trans. N. S. v. 1. 
p. 407. Fischer et Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. p. 
22. Hook. Ic. Select. v. 1. t. 38. 
_A very pretty annual, native of California, where 1t was 
discovered by Mr. Doveras: but it does not appear that 
the plant has been raised at the Horticultural Society. 
Mr. Benruam’s characters were derived from dried speci- 
mens. Seeds, however, have been sent from Ross in New 
California to the Petersburg Garden, and from thence to 
the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where our plants flowered in 
August and September, in the open border. 
Descr. 
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* grates, large, and oryya, the stigma. 
