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PEN^ACE^ (Stephens) 



[Sarcocolla 



III. SARCOCOLLA, Kuuth. 



Perlantli-tuhe cylindrical, about three times as long as the limb ; 

 lobes reduplicate- valvate and erect in bud, becoming. I'eflexed as the 

 flower opens. Stamens exserted at the top of the perianth-tube, 

 projecting for theii* whole length, erect, about two-thirds the length 

 of the limb ; anthers oblong, as long as the filament or slightly 

 shorter, cells subequal to the connective, margins of the valves 

 entire. Ovary and niyle at first as long as the perianth-tube, later 

 projecting beyond it; style slender, terete ; stigma capitate, 4-lobcd ; 

 ovules 2 or 4 in each cell, inserted at the base, erect. 



Much-branched unclershrub.s, brandling mainly from the base ; branches erect or 

 semi-decumbent, glabrous ; upper branches and leaves often covered with a 

 ■whitish waxy bloom secreted by the glandular stipules and by the apical gland of 

 the leafj lower branches defoliated ; leaves flat, imbricated^ sessile, visually tipped 

 with a more or less di^itinct gland, passhig into bract.s at the apex of the flowering" 

 shoot ; stipules small, pyramidal or auriculate, often glandular, becoming black ; 

 minute brown settc present in the axils of the leaves ; flowers solitary and 

 termiiial, or gathered into terminal heads ; bracts imbricate, coloured, liat or 

 more or less convex in the younger stages, becoming markedly convex as the fruit 

 swells, resinous, lower sterile, tipped with a gland less prominent than that of the 

 leaf, with glandular stipules like those of the leaf at each side of their asil ; 

 bracteoles narrowly linear or linear-spathulate, acute, acuminate or cuspidate- 

 acute, ciliate or eutire, shorter than the bracts, inserted on the perianth at or 

 near its base ; bracts and bracteoles yellowish or tinged with pink ; perianth with 

 a yellow^ tube and rosy-pink limb. 



DiSTRiB. Species 3, endemic. 



Flowers in terminal heads : 



\ Leaves 5-8 lin. long ; lower and median bracts r>-10 



lin. broad 



... (1) squamosa. 



Leaves 2-5 lin. long; lower and median bracts lJ-4 



lin. broad ... . . (2) minor. 



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Flowers terminal, solitary .„ 



* W 



... C3 ) formosa. 



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1. S. squamosa (Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. ii. 7-i) ; an undcrshrub, 



^-2 ft. high ; leaves ovate to elliptical or obovate, obtusely mucro- 

 ate, with a glamlular tip, A^arying much in size, sometimes as broad 

 as longj 5-8 lin. long; 3-8 lin. broad ; flow crs gathered into terminal 

 heads of about half-a-dozen, sometimes less, very exeeptionally 1 or 

 2; lower bracts isterile, leaf-like, larger than the leaves; median 

 bracts fertile, broadly obovate to cuneat'e, entire or ciliate, often 

 emarginate and mucronate at the apex, larger than the leaves and 

 longer than the lower bracts, 5-10 lin. broad ; upper bracts fertile, 

 cuneate, membranous, ciliate, often emarginate and mucronate at 



the apex, longer and narrower than 



med 



perianth-tube 



9-15 lin. long, 1-^-3 lin. in diam. ; lobes ovate, obtuse or acute, 

 3-6 lin. long, 2^-4 lin. broad. A.DC. in DC. Frodr. xiv. 489. 



Pensea squamosa, 



Mant. AIL 331; Bof. Reg. t 106; Lam. 



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