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PLATYSTEMON LEIOCARPUM. SMOOTH-FRUITED 
PLATYSTEMON. ? 
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Class and Order. 
PoryanpriA PotyeyniA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Paraveracez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala 6. Stamina nu- 
merosa. Filamenta dilatata, membranacea, obcordata. 
Anthere \ineares, biloculares, lateraliter dehiscentes. Ova- 
ria plurima (10 et ultra) linearia, stigmate sessili lineari ter- 
minata. Capsule totidem distincte, torulose, articulate, 
transversim multiloculares, extus piloso-hispide. Semina 
in quoque loculo solitaria pendula. Benth. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Priarystemon leiocarpum ; ovariis fructibusque glaberrimis. 
Puatystemon leiocarpum. Fisch. et Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. 
Petrop. p. 22. 
Seeds of this Puatystemon were received by Dr. Fiscuer 
of the Imperial Petersburgh Garden, from the Russian 
Colony of Ross in New California : and finding the ovaries 
and seed-vessels to be constantly glabrous, he distinguished 
it as a species from P. Californicum, figured at t. 3579, of 
our work. The same author observes, as another point of 
distinction, that the flowers are ochroleucous ; whereas they 
are represented as yellow in the Botanical Register figure 
of P. Californicum. As cultivated in our garden, however, 
the colour of the inflorescence is alike in both species, and 
the hue is probably liable to eet for in our living plants 
of P. Californicum we find the flowers quite as pale as in 
the individual now represented. Our plants of P. letocarpum 
are from the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they were 
raised in 1836 from seeds sent by Dr. Fiscuer. It flowered 
im August and September. 
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Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil:—magnified. 
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