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Philydrum Lanuginosum. Woolly 

 Philydrum. 



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C/tf/i and Order, 



MONANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Spatha 1 -flora. Cal. o. Cor. 4-petala irregularis. Capfula 

 3-locularis polyfperma. {Norn. Bankf. a piAuty©- aquae amans.) 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



PHILYDRUM lanuginofum. Willd. Sp. PI. 17. 



PHILYDRUM. G<ert. Sent. 1. p. 62. /. 16./. 10. 



GARCIANA cochinchinenfis ; foliis equitantibus, fpica ter- 

 minals Loureiro Flor. Coch. p. 15. Id. edit. 

 Willd. p. 20. 



Descr. Leaves fword-fhaped, equitant, one or two feet 

 long, ftriated, acute. Stalk woolly, four feet high, branched 

 upwards with a leaf-like Item -em bracing involucrum at each 

 divifion. Flowers fefiile in long fpikes, each fupported by an 

 ovate long-acuminate woolly brade, re Hefted, when the tlower 

 is fully expanded. Corolla four-petaled : two petals external, 

 large, ovate, crenulate, bilabiateiy arranged : two internal, 

 minute, three-toothed. Filament one, inferted into the bafc of 

 the upper petal, thickeft at the lower end. Anther double, 

 yellow. Ovary ovate : ftyle fhort, oblique ; fligma globular. 

 Capfule covered with the enlarged braBe and decayed corolla, 

 ovate, woolly, three-celled, three valved : valves contrary to 

 the diffepiment. Seeds many, very minute, oval, crowned 

 with a fort of cap-like appendix. 



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