532 Prof. Don’s Monograph of Streptopus, &c. 
or articulations of which they form an integral part, being merely lateral 
extensions of them, and not separated by a diaphragm. 
The generic name alludes to the pendulous ovula, and is deiiyad from 
zpocaprác, to append. 
1. P. lanuginosa, umbellis bifloris sessilibus, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis 
_3-nerviis basi foveolatis, stylo glabro, foliis cordato-ovatis subamplexi- 
caulibus utrinque pubescentibus. 
Streptopus lanuginosus. Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. p.201. Pursh Fl. Amer. 
Sept. i. p. 232. Elliott Carol. i. p.393. Sm. in Rees’ Cycl. in loco. 
Spreng. Syst. ii. p.98. Schult. fil. Syst. vii. p. 311. 
Uvularia lanuginosa. Pers. Syn. i. p.360. Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1490. 
Hab. in altis montibus Carolinz Australis (Mich.) ; in Pennsylvania (Pursh) ; 
in montibus Kentucky. Short. Yy. Fl. Maio et Junio (v.s. sp. in Herb. 
Boott). 
Caules erecti, teretiusculi, pedales v. sesquipedales, inferne nudiusculi, basi 
foliis 2 v. 3 imperfecte evolutis convoluto-vaginatis instructi, apice ra- 
mosi, pilis mollibus, dichotomis, 4—5-articulatis, ramulo altero brevis- 
simo, rarihs biramulosis, undique copiose vestiti. Folia sessilia, ovata, 
longé acuminata, membranacea, multinervia, utrinque pilis mollibus sim- 
plicibus 2—3-articulatis, articulo imo dilatato, vestita, basi rotundata, 
subcordata, vix ac ne vix amplexicaulia, sesqui- v. bipollicaria, 2 unciæ 
lata. Umbella terminalis, sessilis, biflora. Flores penduli. Pedicelli 
semunciales, filiformes, pilis simplicibus copiosè vestiti. Perianthium 
campanulatum, luteo-virens. Sepala lanceolata, longè acuminata, 3- 
nervia, 8 lineas longa, basi foveolà nectariferâ aucta, sed omninò sim- 
plicia, planiuscula, nec saccata. Stamina perianthio vix dimidio breviora, 
erecta, subæqualia : filamenta canaliculata, glabra, inferné dilatata: an- 
there erectae, innate, oblongæ, apice integro, obtuse, biloculares, fila- 
mentis tripló breviores: loculis parallelis, connatis, suturà marginali 
dehiscentibus, basi liberis. Ovarium conicum, 3-loculare: loculis biovu- 
latis: ovulis a placentæ superiore parte pendulis! obovatis, ventricosis. 
Stylus triqueter, glaber, stamina parüm excedens. Stigmata 3, brevissima, 
recurvata. Bacca rubra, 3-locularis: loculis 1—2-spermis. 
