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oenothera grandi flora, /3. pubescent 

 Great-flowered CEnothera. 



Class and Order. 



OCTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat, 4-fidus, tubulosus. Petala 4. Caps. 4-locuIaris, 

 4-valvis, cylindrica, infera. Sem. nuda. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CEnothera grandifiora ; foliis ovato-Ianceolatis, staminibus 



declinatis, caule fruticoso. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. 2. p. 2. 



ed. altera. % p: 341. Willd. Sp. PL 2. p. 306. 

 CEnothera grandifiora ; caule glabriusculo ramoso, foliis 



ovato-lanceolatis glabris, staminibus declinatis. Pursh 



Flor.Am. Sept. 1. p. 261. 

 (a. ) caule, foliis, germinibusque glabris. 

 (|3. ) caule et germinibus subpubescentibus, foliis calycibusquc 



villosis. 



Descr. Stem erect, branched towards the top, woody; 

 slightly pubescent. Lower leaves ovate lanceolate, narrowed 

 into a short petiole, crenate-dentate, villous : upper ones not 

 narrowed towards the base, half-stem-embracing. Flowers 

 very large, yellow, sweet-scented, smelling something like the 

 Jonquil, but more delicate. Tube of the calyx villous, nearly 

 twice the length of the sulcated germens. Petals crenate at 

 the tip, not so much emarginated as represented in the figure, 

 being, when fully expanded, more of a truncate than obcordate 

 form. Stamens and style declined. 



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