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Cotyledon curviflora. Bent- flowered 

 Navelwort. 



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Class and Order. 

 Decandria Pentagynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala. Squamce nectariferae 5, ad 

 basin germinis. Caps. 5. 



Specific Character. 



Cotyledon curviflora ; fruticosa, foliis semicylindricis spar- 

 sis, floribus paniculatis nutantibus, calycibus laxis, tubo 

 corollse pentagono incurvo. 



Cotyledon purpurea ; foliis lineari-oblongis carnosis glabris, 

 floribus paniculatis. Thunb. prodr. S3 ? 



The Cotyledon curviflora appears to us to be an unde- 

 scribed species, unless it should be Thunberg's purpurea, 

 which does not seem very probable, because neither the llovvers 

 nor leaves are of that colour. There is a species figured by 

 Burmann which has flowers not unlike those of our plant, 

 but which are said to be erect, and the flowering- stem is 

 represented to be pubescent. 



The stem is fleshy, rough with the vestiges of former 

 leaves. From the extremities of the thick branches shoot 

 straight, rounded, smooth, flowering stems, clothed with 

 scattered fleshy, linear, semicylindrical leaves, and bearing 

 a few flowered panicle at the extremity. The peduncles are 

 twisted in a fantastical manner. Calyx large, lax, of five 

 unequal fleshy leaflets. Corolla tnbular, yellow, streaked 

 with red : lube above an inch long, curved, somewhat inflated 



upwards, 



