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LEDOCARPUIM pcdunculaic 



Long-stalked Ledocarpuni . 



DECANDRIA PENTAGVXIA. 



WBW YORK 



BOTANICAL 



QARDHN 



Nat. ord. 0\Ai.ir)T.\9, affinc. 



LEDOCARPUM Mc^W — Calyx 5-phyllus, imbricatus, submqualis, 

 bracteis decern linciiribus iiivolucratus. Petala .3, palentia, obtusa, ;rf|ualia. 

 Stamina 10, hypot2:yna, aiqualia ; Jilamenta subulata ; anthercc oblongoe, 

 innatac. Ovarium subrotundum, .5-loculare, ovulis pluriniis disticliis. Stigma 

 5-lobum, sessile. Capsula vestita, 5-loc'ularis, polyspcrma, apice loculicido- 

 5-valvis. Semina minima, oomprcssa, marii:inata. Em})ryo incurvus, in axi 



albiiminis carnosi, cotyledonibus linearibus, })lanis, suljiiivolutis. SiiftVntex 



Chilcnsis, fobis alternis, oppositisvc, 3-partitis, exstipulatis, floiibus rnarfiiis, 

 solitariis, terminalibus. 



L. peduncularc ; foliis scBpius alternis : laciniis linearibus pilosis, pedunculis 



foliis niulto longioribus. 



Suffrutex j-arnis strictis, gracilibus, denst foliosis. Folia scepius alterna, 

 nunc opposita, S-pai'tita, glauca, pubescentia, exstipulata. Flores termi- 

 nales, longc pedunculati, lutei, jEnotherce biennis colore et facie. Bractea:i 

 involucri lineares, aciitce, calyce pauVo breviores. Sepala subcequalia, oh- 

 longo-linearia, acuta, pallida lutco-viridla, nunc apice biloba. Stipnata 

 atropurpurea. Ovarium lanatum, album. Ovula subrotunda, foramine 

 (fig. 6 a) propc basin, apice nuclei exserto. Semina marginc mcmbranaceo 

 interrupto, nunc obli(]uc in latus decurrentc, kilo viinimo sublatcrali 

 (fig. 9-10 b). Embryo cylindricus, in axi albuminis carnosi, radicula ad 

 extremitatem acutiorem (fig. 10 a) seminis versa, cotyledonibus i-ersi/s hiluvt 

 recurvis, et dein latera/iter involutis (fig. 11). 



This is one of the plants collected by the late .Mr. 

 M'llae for the Horticultural Society, during- his residence 

 in Chile, in 1825. Two individuals only were raised from 

 his seeds, one of which Howered in the Chiswick (iarden 

 last August. In a favourable summer, it would succeed 

 very well out of doors ; but it will, at all times, be neces- 



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