44 Addisonia 



length, about as long as the corolla. The single ovary is very 

 slender and is prolonged above into an equally slender style, termi- 

 nated by an oblique stigma. It ripens into a long, slender capsule, 

 containing two chambers, each with several slender seeds. Each 

 seed is provided with a hair nearly an inch long at both base and 

 apex, whence the generic name Trichosporum, signifying hair-seed. 



H. A. Gleason. 



Explanation op Plate. Fig. 1. — Branch, with flowers. Fig. 2. — Corolla, 

 split open. Fig. 3. — Pistil. 



