entire, penninerved, the nerves almost at right angles from the 
costa, transverse, slightly branched; the margin revolute. Pe- 
duncles axillary, generally longer than the leaf, erect, few-flowered ; 
flowers one to three, drooping. Pedicels naked, or bearing one 
to two lanceolate, distinct bracts: the hypocalycinal bract tri- 
partite, appressed, leafy, veined. Calya between rotate and com- 
panulate, dull and pale purple, downy, veined, the five lobes 
acuminate. Pefals five, small, squamiform, dark purple, one 
at the base of each stamen. Stamens converging into a cone 
against the pistil: f/aments subulate: anthers dark purple. 
Germen ovate, acuminate, downy. Style articulated upon the 
ovary, about equal to it in length, slender, subulate. Stigma 
obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Flower with the calyx removed. 2. Stamen and petal. 3. Pistil:— 
magnified. 
‘Spartina 
