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LaSIOPETALUM FERRUGINEUM. Rusty 
LasloreTALUM. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MonocynlA. 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Cal, rotatus, 5-fidus. Stamina bafi fquama munita. Axthere 
apice poris duobus. Cap/. fupera 3-locularis, g-valvis: valvis 
medio feptiferis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
LASIOPETALUM ferrugineum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis ob- 
tufis finuatis integerrimifve. 
LASIOPETALUM (ferrugineum ; foliis linearibus integerrimis, 
Hort. Kew. ed. alt, 2. p. 36. 
LASIOPETALUM jerruginewm. — Bot. Repof. 208. Fenten, 
Malmaif. 59. : 
Descr. A low forud with fpreading Lranches, when young 
Covered with a rufty tomentum. Leaves alternate, on fhort 
petioles, reflexed, linear-lanceolate with a cordate bafe, more 
or lefs and unequally finuate, fmooth on the upper furface, and 
clothed, on the under, with a thick whitifh tomentum, inter- 
fperfed ‘with minutely fafciculated rufty hairs. The petioles, 
pedicles, and outer fide of the calyx are hifpid, with a 
fimilar pubefcence. The /ipules, which form a remarkable 
charaéter in moft of the fpecies, appear to be entirely wanting 
‘in this. Calyx perfiftent, petal-like, greenifh within, fupported 
by a braéfe of three fubulate incurved leaves. By fome botanifts 
this part is confidered as the calyx, and what we have fo termed, 
as the corolla; whence the name of Lasroreratum, or 
WOOLLY-pETAL. NeéZaries 5, {cale-like, revolute, one at the 
bafe of each very fhort filament. Anthers large, of a deep 
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