those of Myrica Gale, being obovate-lanceolate, coarsely serrated 
in the upper half, cuneate below, and tapering into a short fvot- 
stalk, dark green above, pale beneath, penninerved. Peduncle 
an inch to an inch and a half long, slender, axillary, single- 
flowered, curved downward, bearing two opposite subulate bracts 
below the middle. Hower drooping. Calyz-tube incorporated 
with the ovary, turbinate, five-angled ; Limé of five, spreading, 
subulate laciniz. Corolla red, with the tube nearly cylindrical, 
curved, broadest in the middle ; Zimé of five, nearly equal, rotun- 
date, fringed, spreading lobes ; mouth with a dark border, yellow 
in the throat. Stamens as long as the tube: fifth stamen reduced 
to a short subulate filament. Lpigynous ring large, fleshy, si- 
nuated. Style exserted. Stigma capitate, nearly entire. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil and epigynous ring :—magnified. 
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