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TURR/EA?* pinnata. 

 Pinnated TurrfRu. 



MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Mf.liace* Juss. — (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 120.) 



TURRjEA Linn. — Calyx 5-fidus. Petala 5, longissiina, li^ula'formia. 

 Stamina 10, tubo loiigissimo apice 10-fido, antheris ad loborum basin, aut 

 inter eos insertis. Stylus 1. Stigma crassiusculum. Capsw/a 5-looularis, 

 loculis dispermis, valvis medio septiferis. — De Cand. prodr. 1. 620. 



T. foliis pinnatis, tubo staminum 10-dentatodentibusbifidis. Wallich plant . 



asiat. rar. vol. 2. p. 21. t. 119. 



Frutex {arbor ?). Rami cylindrici, cortice [/labro, pallida fuscescente. 

 Folia petiolata, valdc approximata, sparsa, undique patentia, impari-pin- 

 nata, 2-3-juga ; foliola opposita, patentia, brcvissi7ne petiolata, lanceolata, 

 attenuato-acuta, integerrima, eleganter tindulata, basi pariim cordata ct 

 incequalia, lobis rotundatis, altero breviore, rigida, subcarnosa, hand punc- 

 tata, utrinque secus tractus vasorum pilosula, suprd atroviridia, lucida, 

 subtiis costd nervisque alternis elevatis, leviter venulosa ; inferiora pollicaria, 

 exteriora sensim viajora, impar fere 3-pollicare. Petiolus communis teres, 

 pilosulus, basi pariim dilatatus, suprd sulcatus, sesquipollicaris, desinens in 

 rachin rectam, teretem, sulcatam ; partiales brevissimi, teretcs, pilosnli. 

 Stipulae nullcE. Peduuculi solilarii, axillares, teretes, pilosi, pollicarcs, 

 post expansioncm Jiorum decurvi, apice gerentes flores aliquot fasciculatos, 

 pedicellatos, pullide roscos, inodoros, suffnltos pcdiccllis brevibus, clavatis, 

 sulcatis. BracteoliE paucce, spars(e, lanceolatce, actitce. Calyx j^rofundl} 

 5-partitus, pilosus ; lacinia; foliacecp, ligulata, incequales, basi conniventes, 

 apice acutiusculd patulce. Corolla tubulosa, sesquipollicaris, limbo patentc. 

 Petala 5, plana, lanceolata, subinaqualia, obtusiuscula, patentia, subtiis 

 subsericea, basi angustatd desinentia in ungues longos, connatos in tubum 

 cylindricum, gracilem, sulcatum, limbum lequantem, calyce duplo lougiorem, 

 basi intiis auctum tubulu carnoso, brcvissimo, triincato, ovarium et basin 

 styli ambiente. Filament a 10, glabra, unita in tubum carnusurn, cylindricum, 

 unguibus corollce adnatum, supernc libcrum, ercctum, limbo breviorem, fauce 

 pariim dilatatum, \0-dentatum, dcntibus brevibus, subulatis, versiis apiccm 

 seorsiim dorso appendiculatis denticulo subulato, brevi, patente. Antlienv 10, 



• Georgio a Turre, an Italian Botanist, visited Candin, and published a 

 Catalogue of the Garden at Padua in 1662. He was also the author of an 

 indifferent Jiistona Plantarum, in folio, in 1685. 



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