Massonia PustutaTa. SHAGREEN-LEAVED 
WUASSONIAy ing to AeloibelD six! 
Cla/s and Order. ; 
Hexanpria Monocynia. ~ 
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Generic Charafler.—Vid. Nem. 559» : 4 4 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 
MASSONIA puftulata; acaulis, foliis orbiculatis acutis diffite 
fulcato-ftriatis: tuberculis pyramidatis fine ordine 
denfis exafperatis, thyrfo umbellato-congefto, 
collo denudato-elevato. G. . se 
MASSONIA pufulata. Facq. Coll. 4. 177. apud Icones omiffa, 
MASSONIA /cabra. MSS. Bankf. Spec. capenfe Sp. v. con- 
JServatum. Bot. Rep. tab. 46. i ie 
Leaves round witha point, flat, recumbent, thick, leath 
ofa deep fhining green ftreaked with feveral diftant furrow- — 
like longitudinal lines converging at each end, ree! urface — 
thickly fet with fmall conic tubercles in the manner of fhagreen, | 
but not befet with hairs, as in thofe of Massonta echinata. 
The braétes elliptic-lanceolate, large, foliaceous, hemming inthe _ 
flowers like the calyx of a fyngenefious plant, equal to the — 
top of the tube. Pedicles about half the length of the flower. © 
Corolla of a watery green; tube cylindric, twice longer than 
_ the fegment, equal to the ftamens that ftand on its neck, which 
is thickened, of a deeper green than any other part of the 
flower and, by the rolling back of the fegments of its outer 
coat below the bafes of the filaments, the appearance | 
ef being prominent: fegments ovate-acuminate, ‘convolute, 
concave, with a tranverfe plait at their bafe. Filaments 
firm, cyathiformly arranged, as it were mediately inferted, — 
whitifh ; ftyle about their length, fix-flreaked. Stigma nearly _ 
obfolete, but, examined through a glafs, hiant and fringed. ~ 
