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obtuse, white, shorter than the calyx. Stamens 20: filaments 
united at the base; the five sterile ones larger than the rest, 
hairy. Anthers erect, subulate. Pistil: germen superior, 
shortly pedicelled. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma 
thickened, villous, Capsule pedicelled, egg-shaped, covered 
with white powdery down, 5-valved, 5-celled: partitions from 
the middle of the valves. Cells 4-seeded, two to each parti- 
tion. Seeds compressed, terminating in a long obtuse wing. 
This tree is, I believe, rather rare: those individuals from 
which the preceding description was made, are, I believe, the 
only ones I have met with in their native habitat. They grow in 
sandy soil, about five miles from the sea-coast. The trunk is 
short, about two feet in circumference; the branches ascending, 
but pendulous towards their extremities. When I first saw 
them in October, they were loaded with fruit, but not a single 
flower could be found. The drawing was taken in May, and 
the fruit attached to the specimen is the production of the 
preceding year. It is used as timber by the carpenters, but 
I am ignorant of the quality of the wood. 
(To Ammann’s figure I have not an opportunity of referring ; 
but that of Cavanilles entirely accords with our plant. Dr. 
Roxburgh has fallen into an error in calling this plant Pter- 
ospermum canescens, and in taking for the true suberifolium 
a very different species; the same, indeed, as is figured, and 
under the same name, in Bot. Mag. t. 1526, having leaves 
and flowers twice or thrice the size of our plant, and a 3- 
leaved involucre surrounding the calyx.—H.] ; 
SuPPL. Tas. XXVI. Fig. 1, Stamens and pistil, Fig. 2, 
Seed :—natural size. 
XXVI 
UTRICULARIA STELLARIS. o 
Dianpria Monoeynia. Nat. Ord. LeNTIBULARUE. .— 
Cal. diphyllus, labiis eequalibus indivisis. Corolla personata 
labio inferiore basi calcarata. Stamina 2, do" apice 
intus antheriferis. Stigma bilabiatum. = = 
Utricularia stellaris; foliis radicalibus compositis laciniis 
