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PLATYSTflMON Californicum. 



Califo7'nian Platystemon. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYRIA. 



Nat. or d. Papaverace^, Juss. {introduction to Ihe Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 8.) 



PLATYSTEMON Bentham. Flores trimeri ! Sepala 3, hispida. 

 Petala 6, ordine duplici. Stamina subindefinita ; Jilamentis petaloideis ; an- 

 theris linearibus rectis. Carpella 9-12, collateralia, stigmatibus linearibus erectis 

 simplicissimis ; matura leviter cohterentia, indehiscentia, cartilaginea, torulosa ; 

 in articulos transversos monospermos secedentia. Semina Isevia, ecristata ; al- 



bumine oleoso. Herba ( Calif ornica), annua, tenera, foliis {v. potius 



petiolis dilatatis aphyllis) linearibus paralleliveniis, alternis et vertici/latis, 

 scEp^ unilateralibus ; floribus terminalibus et axillaribus longe pedunculatis. 



Platystemon Californicum ; Bentham in Hort. Trans, vol. 1 , n. s. p. 405. 



Herba annua, erecta, subramosa, succulenta, pilis sparsis in pedunculis 

 calycibusque rigidioribus rarb vestita. Folia lineari-oblonga, sessilia, ob- 

 tusa, venis monocotyledonearum more parullelis, inferiora allerna, intermedia 

 3 uncias longa sub-verticillata, suprema minora situ variantia. Pedunculi 

 axillares et terminales foliis quadruplo longiores, ascendentes, stricti, uni- 

 Jlori. Sepala tria. concava, decidua, Papaveris more. Petala 6, duplici serie 

 disposita, ovata, pallide lutea, inferiora paulb minora. Stamina plurima, 

 numerosa, hypogyna ,- filamentis petaloideis, antheris linearibus lateralite.r 

 dehiscentibus, innatis, breve unguiculatis. Carpella 9-12, dorso hispida, 

 seriebus pluribus ordinata, onininb sejuncta, stigmatibus toiidem linearibus 

 erectis ; matura subcalva, coriacea, torulosa, transversim in articulos mono- 

 spermos secedentia, informam cylindraceam aggregata, stigmatibus lineari- 

 bus parum divergentibus terminata. 



A native of. California, whence it was sent by Mr. David 

 Douglas to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it 

 flowered last September; the few seeds it produced have 

 failed to vegetate, and the plant is therefore lost to our gar- 

 dens ; fortunately, however, our drawing was made before 

 the specimen had withered. 



* So named from nXarvr broad, and rrr^fuop a stamen, in allusion to the 

 breadth of the filaments. 



