DECANDRI A | MONOGENTA, 973 
at the angles near t 
valves connected by an intricate tomentum; 
(septa medial, coalescing with the receptacular 
axis; lobes of the receptacle simple. Seeds | ery 
uumerous and minute, samaroid. ) ; 
Herbaceous evergreens, with creeping coe a leaves 
radical, alternate, Snetegs odes roundish, Elliptic or ovate; — 
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unibracteate; style straight or declinate. Anthers bipo- 
rose at the base, becoming inverted on the age sat the 
flower, and then presenting the pores upwards. 
tT Style straight. 
Species. 1. P. uniflora. Flower fragrant, exhiing an 
odor similar to that of Convallaria majalis. Leaves sub- 
~ ovate, serrate; scape 1-flowered; pores of the anthers tubu- 
+ of the raceme. 
. tt Style declinate, stamina a. 
letely crenulate, partly coriaceous and lucid, petiole con- 
spicuously marginated, about the length of the ae 
scape many-flowered; bractes ovate, calix 5 
pd oblong-ovate, reflected at the 
the genus; flowers white, with a rosaceous tinge, some 
volutes bractes upon the naked part of the scape about 3, 
- sheathing; bractes of the flowers as long or lea than 
the peduncles, and conspicuous; stigma annulate, 5-lobed. 
5 ae 5: * elliptica. Leaves membranaceous, oblong-oval and 
~~ obtuse, or elliptic-ovate, plica holy telat and acute, 
Ate teed Sah s much longer than naked 
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pe with the — gees in June. seer goal 
Pac gues val, houses 
ina which pendetl fulvous, segments 
pieces 5 a ae very a be ort nulat 
Scapes racemose or rarely 1- flowered, flowers pedicellate, © 
lar. 2. minor. 3. secunda. Flowers incline? i tone side 
ba 4. PRES a2 Leaves roundish, or dilated ‘oval, obso- - 
longer than the stamina. Oss. The largest. mee ot 
what fragrant, scape 3 to 5-angled, sometimes ¢on- 
3 — 
~ or furni d with a single scale; bractes linear and subu- ‘s 
Rieti margins of the | 
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oF a Salix sevsinvete aps ea scape acutely trique-  _ | 
