170 I'ENTANDRIA. Dlt^YNIA. 



what iont^er than tlic anthevidlum and arising separately 

 from its base; segnnents compressed, connlvent, incurved, 

 fistulous, but impervious, internally marginated, margin 

 double, membranaceous, coalescing at tl^e summit, and 

 there including a minute lamella. Antheridium 5-lobed, 

 winged lateral margin of the lobes broad and membrana- 

 ceous, mem^^rane margined and cont nuedto the summit, 

 there forming a double sinuous plicature from the centre 

 of which arises the Usual cusps of the lobes; cusps con- 

 cave, margins reflected. Lobes of the poilinium minute, 

 alternating in the cells of the anther. dium, stipes of the 

 lobes straight, capillary and very long. Stigma discoid, 

 concave, margin 5-toothed. Styles 2, minute. Follicles 

 2. Seeds comose^ 



Collected near St. Mark's in Florida, by Dr. Baldwyn. 



245. ^STYLANDRA.f 



Calix 5-pai'tc(], nunute. C'o?'Ot/a without tube, 

 5-parted, segments long, erect, and connivent. 

 LepantJium simple, 5-parted, segments saccate, 

 and compressed, with operciiloid, rigidly re- 

 curved ])()ints; tube reversed, styloid, very long, 

 supporting tlic parts of tVu( tification. Stamina 

 as in As("lepias. P<)//i/ii« pendulous, even. Fol- 

 licles 2, long and slender. Seeds comosc? 



Stem erect, leaves both opposite and scattered; umbells 

 axillary, very few flowered. 

 S. pumila. 



Asclcpiiis pedicellatn. "Walter, Flor. Carol, p. 106. A. 

 moschdia? Bartram. Fls. odorous. 



Descript. Root perennial. Stenn simple, erect, mi- 

 nutely pubescent, slender, (about from 6 to 12 ir.ches high.) 

 Leaves opposite and alternate, sessile, linear, acute, m.i- 

 iiutely pubescent, and somewhat scabrous on the margin. 

 Umbells solitary, axillary, 3 or 4-fio\vered, peduncle short; 

 pedicells longer than the peduncle. Calix 5-parted, very 

 minute, segments acute. Corolla 5-parted, laciniae erect, 

 connivent,' oblong-ovate, yellowish-green, points deeper 

 coloured. Lepanthium 5-parted, segments about one third 

 the length of the corolla, sessile, saccate, compressed or 

 carinate, reciprocally confluent at the base; point rigidly 

 Inflected, resembhng a deflected lid, with a subulate 



f From rruAo$. a fo/w7«7i, and «tv;;f, a man, (by analogy, the 

 masculine organs ef plants,) the antheridium being supported 

 upon a conspicuous style or column. 



