142 DESCRIPTION OF HYOBANCHE. 
with a broad base. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, striated. 
Petals with the claws united for their whole length into a 
funnel-shaped tube; the limb of 5 oblong-oval, spreadirig 
segments. Stamens 10, monadelphous, 5 short, 5 very long 
and more exterior, subulate, longer than the styles, slightly 
downy. Anthers oval ^ Germen roundish-ovate glabrous, 
seated on a thickened stipes. Styles 5, long.  Stigmas 
capitate. 
Tass. I, II. Fig. 1, Flower; f. 2, 3, Bracteas ; f. 4, Corolla. 
J. 5, Stamens and pistil ; f. 6. Pistil :—magnified. 
Description, with a Figure of HvoBANCHE SANGUINEA. 
Thunb., by W. H. Harvey, Ese. 
(Tas. III.) 
(The accompanying description and figure of this very 
beautiful plant would perhaps not have appeared in these 
pages, if previous to the Plate having been prepared, we had 
been aware of the excellent one recently given in Endlicher’s 
* [conographia Generum Plantarum.” As, however, Mr. 
Harvey possessed the great advantage of drawing up his 
account, and making his delineation from the recent plant, I 
have the less hesitation in still laying them before the 
public.—Ep.) 
HYOBANCHE, Thunb. | 
Gey. Cnan. Calyx bibracteate at the base, unequally 5- 
cleft. Sepals linear-spathulate, the two anterior separate 
nearly to their base, the others united for more than one- 
third of their length. Corolla clavate, slightly curved, vault- 
ed, with a very narrow oblique mouth; limb obsolete, its 
* segments minute and tooth-like. Stamens 4, of nearly equal 
length, inserted in pairs near the base of the corolla (almost 
as long) ; filaments glabrous ; anthers (by abortion) 1-celled, 
adnate to the expanded apex of the filament: margins of the 
cell involute. Ovary 2-celled, ovate : placente 2 in each cell, 
fleshy, in the axis; ovules very numerous; styles filiform 5 
stigma clavato-linear, drooping. Capsule subglobose, fleshy ; 
