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STYLIDIUM SCANDENS. CLIMBING STYLIDIUM. 
HEHEHE HMEE 
Class and Order. 
GyNANpDRIA TETRANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Srvuipez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. bilabiatus. Cor. irregularis, 5-fida, lacimia quinta 
(labello) dissimili, minore, deflexa (raro porrecta) reliquis 
patentibus (raro geminatim coherentibus. Colwmna recli- 
nata, duplici flexura ; Antheris bilobis, lobis. divaricatis- 
simis; Stigmate obtuso, indiviso. Capsula bilocularis, 
dissepimento superne quandoque incompleto. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Stytiprum * scandens ; caule scandenti, foliis linearibus — 
apice spirali cirrhoso, fauce coronata, labello appen- 
diculato, columna superne pubescenti. Br, 
Styipium scandens. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. ov. 1. 
p. 570. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 746. Graham, 
in Edin. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1831. 
fa, 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem (eighteen inches high.) 
slender, shining, red, glabrous, branched. Leaves (three 
inches and a half long) whorled, crowded, linear, channel- 
, mucronate, rolled back at the apex in form of a cirrhus, 
rowing out long, filiform, single, unbranched, red and 
Shining roots from their axils. Bractee green, adpressed, one — 
low each pedicel, and two nearly opposite above its mid- 
le, the former small, ovato-acuminate, or larger and sub- | 
ulate, the latter very minute and scale-like. Corymbose 
"acemes, erect, clustered at the extremities of the branches. — 
edicels (three to nine lines long) spreading, single-flower- _ 
ed, red, glabrous, filiform. Calyx superior, bilabiate, yee es 
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