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gantly striated with crimson and yellow. Coro? none, 
Mate Fiowers, Column of the abortive stamina cylindrit, 
much shorter than the calyx, straight. Filaments scarcely 
any. Anthers imbricated in five fascicles of about five each, 
which unite below the mniddle and form a cup round the five 
imperfect germs, 
FemaLe HerMapuropite Firowers, Column none. Sta- 
mina, five sessile bundles of imperfeet anthers embracing 
the five grooves of the base of the germs, Germs five, 
singly semi-ovate, one-celled, with two rows of ovula in 
each, vertically attached to the inner angle of the cell. 
Styles short, recurved, villous, Stigmas rather broad and 
emarginate, Follicles or rather leguminous capsules from 
one to five, from the size of a man’s fist, to that of an in- 
fant’s head, nearly round, long-peduncled, one-celled, one-— 
valved ; valve thick, tough, and very fibrous; surface dense- 
ly clothed with a brownish olive, mealy pubescence. Seeds 
many, attached to the margins of the valve, oblong, consider- 
ably compressed, each terminated by a long, broad, spongy 
wing, (hence the specific name,) which becomes thin and 
sub-membranaceous at the apex. Integuments three ; the ex- 
terior one, a brown, friable, spongy body with a few fibres 
from the wing ; the middle or second one forms an oval nuci- 
form envelope for the embryo only, ard seems composed of 
three parts ; : the exterior and interior thin, brown and friable, 
and the middle part thicker, tough and hard; the interior 
integument a thin membrane. Perisperm none. Embryo; 
cotyledons equal, conform to the seed, three-nerved. Plu- — 
mula two-lobed. Radicle patelliform, lodged immediately 
within the umbilicus, relative, centripetal. 
11. S. villosa, R. 
Leaves from five to seven-lobed ; lobes repand, or lobate, 
fireoly: acuminate. Panicles pendulous, Fodlicles wee 
villous, pices cena 
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