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racemosis (parvis citrinis), pedicelli3 folio brevioribus, bracteolis caducis, 

 calycis tubo sphseroideo ecostato inferne patenti-piloso, limbo uniseriali 

 5-partito, lobis subunguiculatis palmatim 3-5-partitis, lacinulis longiuscule 

 pinnatim fimbriatis mollibus, petalis subrotundis breve fimbriato-ciliatis 

 glabriusculis, staminodiis subulatis acutis stamina sequantibus glanduloso- 

 verruculosis, stylo breve exserto infra stigma obtusum hispidulo. 



Sab. cum prsecedente. Drwmmond, coll. 6. n. 50 ! 



Affinis V. densiflora Lindl. (ad quam referenda videtur planta Drummondii 

 coll. 6. n. 49) et V. fimbripetalce Turcz., sed a posteriore distincta calyce 

 ecostato, loborum lacinulis non aristatis, stylo apice taiatum pubescente, 

 stigmate simplici nee capitato, etc. ; a priore floribus luteis (nee roseis), 

 staminibus corolla dimidio brevioribus (nee sequalibus), etc. Folia 2-3 lin. 

 longa, £-§ lin. lata demum patula, novella pseudo-fa sciculata. Capitula 

 4-8-flora. Calycis limbus patens, diametro vix 3 lin., lobis pallide citrinis 

 stellulam referentibus, fimbriis radiantibus vix 1 lin. longis. Anther® 

 8ubglobosae, mutic«e. 



6. Veeticoedia nobilis, nob., glabra, foliis triquetro-linearibus obtusis sub- 

 mucronulatis, corymbis terminalibus simplicibus brevibus, bracteolis 2 

 connatis diu persistentibus, calyce majusculo, tubo turbinato glaberrimo 

 inferne 10-costato, limbo petaloideo aureo 1-seriali 5-fido, lobis subrotundis 

 sessilibus palmatim multifidis, lacinulis rectis linearibus planis pinnato- 

 ciliatis, petalis ovatis longe fimbriato-ciliatis, staminodiis lanceolatis utrin- 



_ que 1-2-dentatis filamentis fertilibus subulatis nudis breve superatis, 

 antheris pendulis ovalibus inflexo-bicornutis, stylo tenui stigmateque im- 

 berbi. 

 Hob. in planitie prope Smith Biver. Drum, in Hook. Journ. 1853, p. 120. 

 coll. 6. n. 47 ! 



A beautiful species, closely approaching V. grandiflora, Endl. 

 (V. heliantha, Lindl.), but differing in its higher growth, larger 

 leaves and flowers, and in the shape of the sterile filaments, which 

 are subulate, not cuneato-trifid. The anthers are exactly as 

 figured in V. grandiflora by Schauer, Monogr. t. 4. B. f. 7. Leaves 

 3-4 lines long, f-1 line broad, with a very minute mucro, the 

 younger ones imbricate. Peduncles 1-flowered, about an inch 

 long, compressed. Bracteoles at last half separating, cut off from 

 the peduncle, and falling off as a bifid calyptra. Expanded calyx 

 7 lines in diameter, without a trace of outer appendages. 



7. Veeticoedia calliteicha, nob., glabra, foliis linearibus compresso-tri- 

 quetris obtusis minute mucronulatis basi attenuatis marginibus carinaque 

 integerrimis acutis, faciebus planis, superiore lateralibus dimidio angustiore, 

 corymbis terminalibus simplicibus 6-8-floris densis, pediceUis folia pariim- 

 superantibus, bracteolis caducis, calycis tubo campanulato-turbinato supra 

 basin hemisphsericam dense villosulam glabro colorato 10-costato sursum 

 breviter dilatato, Umbo biseriali, utriusque seriei lobis 5 capiUaceo-multifidis 

 roseis, lacinuUs indivisis mollibus comam densam formantibus, lobis serie 



