38 Addisonia 



rosea) blush or pink on the outside, fragrant, prominently subtended 

 by the large scales of the winter-bud ; there is little or no distinction 

 of sepals and petals, the parts being usually a dozen or more, about 

 one and one-half inches long, long-oblong or oblanceolate and 

 short-acute, at first wide-spreading but becoming reflexed; stamens 

 many and short, the yellow anthers forming a ring about the 

 projecting many-carpelled pistil. The fruit is an irregular inter- 

 rupted strobile-like body comprised of the imbricate carpels, only 

 part of which appear to mature; the fertile carpels split into two 

 obtuse or short-acute valves and expose usually a single pea-like 

 scarlet smooth seed. 



h. H. Bailey. 



Explanation of Plate. Fig. 1. — Flowering branch. Fig. 2. — Fruiting 

 and leafing branch. 



