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~°) " EMBoOTHRIUM SPECIOSISSIMUM. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
TreTrrRANDRIA MoONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cor. 4-petala [fepe in unum coalita]. Svam. limbo inferta. 
Folliculus polyfpermus. Sem. alata. SMITH. » 
Specific Chavaéter and Synonyms. 
EMBOTHRIUM /peciofifimum ; foliis obovatis obtufis in-. 
: sequaliter ferratis, fpica [corymbo] fub- 
capitata, involucro polyphyllo.. Smith Nov. 
: | Holl. 1. p. 19. te Jo eg 
_EMBOTHRIUM /peciofifimum. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. P+ 537+ 
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Dr. Smira’s chara@ter of EmBoTHRIUM, when he {peaks of 
the flower as confifting of four petals, may fometimes miflead ~ 
. the ftudent who is unacquainted with the natural order of 
Protez, in which the petals are apt to cohere more or lefs 
firmly; fo as frequently to make the corolla appear to confift of 
one petal only. In the prefent fpecies, in the living plant the 
corolla is divided but a very fmall diftance from the extremity, — 
except that at the back it is early {plit almoft to the bafe, by 
the ftrength of the ftyle. Under other circumftances, however, 
_ the petals may perhaps divide much farther down. In the ftate 
it occurred to us we fhould defcribe it as a monopetalous 
flower: tube 8-angled, burfting on one fide to admit of the 
egrefs of the ftyle ; limb divided into four fegments, bearing 
the anthers in a hollow formed near the point, and rolled 
back foon after the efcape of the ftigma, which does not take 
place till the anthers have difcharged their pollen upon we ‘: 
