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smooth ligula Spikes radical, the lower half immersed im the soi 
oblong, and rather loosely imbricated with lanceolate, coloured, co 
cave, one-flowered, interior and extertor bri racteso—Fi ‘towers rathi 
small, exterior border of three, nearly egual, lanceolate, acumina 
pale red segthents ; inner or lip very pale yellow, panduriform, thi 
is with two, pretty large, Pounded lobes at the base, and the lamina 
hearly oval, : retuse, truncate, or emarginate. — Filament broad, and. 
short.  Anther double, and ctoviied with the usual beak: Ger 
thrée-celled, with many óvula iu each, attached to the i inner angle. 
of the cell. Stigma infundibuliform. 
Observation by N. W. The Butman name is Ios. s 
sule ripening in Ne ovember and December, ovate, triangular, acu 
with flattened sides, smooth, pale, retuse at the base, and su 
` rounded with numerous withered bractes; as large as a C 
Valves thick sa Sent eure e inner surface waved, shinin 
wetitricaie; SEE ie ares ‘at the bursting of the capsule adhe 
ing to the inner angle of one of thevalves—Seeds obovate, horizon ' 
tal, in each cell about twelve, attached by small white fleshy placene 
tas to the sides of the dissepiment, faintly aromatic.— Árillus milk- 
white, leathery, loosely surroünding the seed, perforated at its top. 
with a small toothed opening.—Integument simple, dark-purple, 
smooth and shining, porous within and replete with a violetzc 
loured juice : it enters the umbilicated base of the seed and 
ceives the apex of the radicula.— Albumen white, amygdaloi 
conform to the seed and occupying chiefly its lower half, ssb-oblii 
ate above.—V itellus white and fleshy, turbinate, constituting almost. 
entirely the upper part of the seed, erding below in a very thin sheath 
which covers the substance ofthe embr '0.—Embrvo eylindric-ven- 
tricose, as long as the seed, erect.—Cotyledon sub-cylindric, almost” 
epee ivit thick, somewhat enlarged at its n. vamus 
E 77 2. Spikes terminal. : d pL 
9. Z. capitatum. R. = ; ee f 
Herbaceous, leaves linear lanceolate, stem. stem-clasping. | Spike tere 
minal, erect, strobiliform, tractes lanceolate. a 
