peduncles about one-third of aminch long, ufually fupporting 
one, fometimes two flowers; Calyx compofed of five leaves, 
_ which are tinged with red and;permanent; Cofolla five petals, 
white, ovato-lanceolate ; Stamina filaments five, white, hairy, 
at firft upright, afterwards. bending. back betwixt the petals; 
Anthere before they open purple; Pollen yellow; Neétaries 
of two kinds,-five. white, {pringing up between each filament, 
and which may perhaps be confidered as fo many imperfeé 
ftamina, they are broader, much fmoother, and about one- 
third of the length of the filaments, terminating in atran{parent 
gland inftead of an anthera; five green, forming a kind of 
calyx to the germen, from the top of which they {pring, they 
confift of five roundifh, flefhy, fpreading, green leaves, edged 
with hairs ; befides thefe, there is a glandular ring at the bafe 
of the germen; Style white, tapering, very hairy; Stigma. 
ahaa Flowers ufually dropping off without ripening their™ 
eeds. Severe 
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