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Strursiota erecta, Upricur STRUTHIOLA, 
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Class and Order. 
T ETRANDRIA Mowoaynua, 
Genie Qhiipocter: 
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Cal 0. (nisi corollam velis) Cor. tubulosa : ore glandulis 
plerumque octo, Bacca exsueca, 1-sperma. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. — 
Strurwioxa erecta ; ramulis strictis foliis linearibus obtusis 
glabris quadrifariam imbricatis cauli adpressis, corollis 
glabris. 3 : 
Srrutuiora erecta; foliis lincaribus glabris, ramis glabris 
tetragonis. Thunb. Prodr. 76. FVilld. Sp. Pl. 1. 
p. 692. Persoon Syn, 1. p. 148. Wendl. Obs. Bot. 
plo? 277, Tee = : 
Srrutuioxa tetragona ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis quadrifariam 
imbricatis, corollis ealyeibusque nudis, Retz. Obs. 3. 
p. 25. . , bE 
Passerina dodecandra. Sp. Pl. 513. 
Necranpra tetrandra; foliis’ linearibus imbricatis glabris, 
floribus lateralibus, nectariis octonis. Berg. Cap. 133. 
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‘The genus Srrursiora has great affinity with Passerrna, 
_ with which it was at first associated by Linnxus; who, having 
only dried specimens to examine, regarded the eight glands 
at the mouth of the tube as so many anthers, and, finding 
Our more within the tube, gave it the specific name of dode- 
fandra. When he afterwards discovered that the eight bodies 
at the mouth of the tube were not anthers, he separated it 
tom Passerina, instituted a new gens under the name of 
RUTHIOLA, and removed it to the class Tetrandria, which 
the number of stamens demanded ; but why he should at the 
Same time haye denominated that part a calyx which in Pas- 
SERINA he continued io call corolla, is not easy to devise. This 
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