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CENOTHERA speciosa. Larer, wiire- 
FLOWERED EVENING-PRIMROSE. 
Class and Order. 
Octranpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Onageraria. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. tubulosus, 4-partitus, deciduus. Petala 4. Capsula 
__ cylindrica vel prismatica, 4-locularis. Semina nuda cortice 
fungoso placenta columnari centrali affixa. Spreng. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. — 
(ENoTHERA speciosa ; puberula, caule suffruticoso, foliis 
oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis serratis sub- 
pinnatifidisque nervosis subtus pubescentibus, floribus 
racemosis, racemo nudo primum nutante, petalis ob- 
cordatis stamina equantibus (seu longioribus,) ecapsu- 
lis obovatis angulatis. D C. 
(ENorHERA speciosa. Nutt. in Journ. of Sc. Phil. v. 2. p. 
119. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 80. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. 
p. 50. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 230. Sweet, Br. 
Fl. Gard. v. 3. t. 253. ee | 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem three to four feet higi 
slender, weak, flexuose, suffruticose, rough with minu 
pubescence, cylindrical, green, slightly branched. _ Le 
distant, scattered, broadly lanceolate, attenuated at # 
se, denticulato-serrate at the margin, acute, nerved, 
brous above, minutely pubescent beneath. Flowers i 
terminal racemes, at first drooping. Peduncle very sho t, 
with a small, narrow, foliaceous bractea at the base. C 
superior, tubular at the base; the limb of four linear 
ments, but adhering for the greater part of their length, | 
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