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a Asclepias tuberosa. 
in cucullum convolutz, & é medio cucullo corniculum exserentes. Staminum filamenta coadu- 
nata in tubum crassum 5-gonum, germina arcté involvens, ex imA corolla enatum, supra clausum 
stigmate truncato, & ipsi quasi continuum, in angulis 5-sculcatum, in faciebus 5-antheriferum ; an- 
there subsessiles medio tubo extis insertz erecte 2-loculares, polline vacuzx, apice membran- 
acex, corolle laciniis alterne. Stylus 0; stigma peltatum 5-gonum, tubo supradicto impositum, 
ex foveolis 5-angularibus emittens corpuscula 5 ovata minima, antheris alterna, et ideo corollz la- : 
ciniis opposita, 2-valvia, valvis latere productis, infra. 2-cornia; cornua hec exilia propendentia 
basi subulata, medio geniculata, ultra spatulata & granulata (ex concreto polline facta ?) ; horum 
singulum in proximo vicinioris antherx loculum immersum, undé 1 corpusculum antheris 2 com- 
mune & 1 anthera corpusculorum 2 particeps Folliculi oblongi acuminati, sepé ventricosi; se- 
mina papposa. Juss. Gen, Pl. p. 147. 
Nat. Ord. Linnzi. Contorte. 
_ Class. Pentandria. Order Digynia. Lin. Syst. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. perianth five-cleft, sharp, very small, permanent. Cor. Sevinggetiny, fet. ob iy fre 
parted ; divisions ovate-acuminate, slightly bending with the sun ; nectaries five, growing to the _ 
tube of the filaments, fleshy or cowled; a sharp horn protruding from the bottom, bending in- — 
wards. Stam. filaments five, collected into a tube, swelling at the base; anthers oblong, upright, 
two-celled, terminated by an inflex membrane lying on the stigma, having a reversed wing on each 
side; the pollen is collected into ten corpuscules, inversely lanceolate, flat, hanging down into 
the cells of the anther by short threads, which are annexed by pairs to five. cartilaginous twin 
tubercles, each placed on the tip of the wings of the anthers, adhering to the angles of the stigma, 
Ess. Gen. Char. Contorted ; nectaries five, ovate, concave, patting Satin Ladle Bie. - : 
Ascurrias tuberosa, caule, erectiusculo summitate 538 Alma 11 
between the anthers. Pist. germs two, oblong, acuminate ; styles two, subulate ;. stigma common 
- toboth, large, thick, five-cornered, covered at the top by the apexes of the anthers, umbilicate 
in the middle. Per. follicles two, large, oblong, acuminate, swelling, one-celled, sige 
Seeds, numerous, imbricate, crowned with down ; receptacle membraneous, free. 
dy 
», foliis sparsis ‘dikies. 
~ lanceolatis —— umbellis suk 
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