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outside a lanceolate bractea. Flowers pedicellate, white. — 
Calyx pentaphyllous; leaflets cordate, villous both within — 
and without, but much more harshly without, somewhat — 
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reflected in their sides, and forming a prominent edge where | 
they meet each other. Petals pubescent, much smaller — 
than the calyx-segments, concave, gibbous at their base, — 
their sides formed into two blunt, parallel wings, which — 
aN towards the axis of the flower, apex extended into a _ 
lunt, linear appendage, at first curved towards the axis, 
but afterwards bent back, and passing out between the 
segments of the calyx. Stamens five (perfect), immedi- 
ately within the petals, and alternating with the segments 
of the calyx, shorter than the petals, and included within 
their folds, alternating on the same urceolate border with, 
and somewhat shorter than, the ovato-lanceolate scales 
(abortive stamens), which are hairy on the outside, smooth 
within ; filaments glabrous; anthers short, bilocular, bursting 
along the sides. Pollen yellow, granules round. Stézgmas 
cohering to each other, small, capitate, colourless, shining. 
Styles five, glabrous, in contact in the centre of the flower, 
scarcely longer than the stamens. Germen five-lobed in 
its early stage, lobes conical and a little rough, afterwards 
rounded, green, depressed in the centre, and densely cover- 
ed with stellate pubescence, five-locular, dissepiments from 
the edges of the valves, their two layers afterwards separat- 
ing. Ovules two in each loculament, with a central ridge 
of the valve between them, both attached to the central 
column below its middle. Pubescence every where on the 
plant stellate, except from abortion, when, as on the upper 
surface of the leaves, it often appears single. 
‘This plant was received last year by Mr. Nextt at Canon- 
mills, and in the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Mr. 
Knicur on the King’s Road; both with Mr. Neira and 
oa flowered freely in the greenhouse in May last. Gra- 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower, the Calyx, having been removed. 3. Petal. 
4. Barren and fertile Stamens. 5. Side view of a Stamen. 6. Front view of 
an Anther, 7. Back view of an Anther. 8. Pistils :—magnified. 
