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PuytTeuma stricta. SLENDER RAmPpIon. 
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Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeynis. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. rotata, 5-partita, laciniis linearibus. Stigma 2—s. 
3-fidum. Caps. 2—s, 3-locularis infera. 
Specific Character. 
Puyteuma stricta ; foliis radicalibus Jineari-spathulatis subin- 
tegerrimis : caulinis conduplicatis, floribus semiverti- 
- cillatis: verticillis trifloris alternis. 
Descr. Radical leaves linear-spathulate, petiolate, intire 
with a few minute denticulations on the margin: cauline 
similar, gradually smaller, folded inwards. Stem straight, 
simple, slender. Flowers in a long spike, growing by threes, ~ 
in alternate clusters or half-whorls. The middle flower in 
each cluster expands nearly at the same time, and when these 
fade, the two side flowers expand together, so that the whole 
spike has open blossoms at the same time from bottom to top, 
at first one in each cluster, afterwards two. Calycine seg- 
ments subulate. Lacinie of the corolla linear, spreading, — 
the two uppermost approaching one another. Stamens 
of short duration. Style the length of the corolla: stigma 
bent, club-shaped, finally two or three-cleft. Germen 2- or 
3-celled, with many ovula. 
This appears to us to be an undescribed species. We 
received it under the name of virgata, but it in no respect 
agrees with the description and figure of that species in - 
Lasittarpiere’s icones Plantarum Syrie. In habit it ‘ap- 
proaches very near to Puyrruma campanuloides (vide No. 
1015), but its foliage is quite different, and the flowers are of a 
paler blue. 
Native country uncertain. : 
Communicated in July 1819 by Mr. Jenkins, from his 
Botanical Garden in the New Road, who received it from 
Mr, Hunneman, 
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