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g-antly strinted with ciiin»:on and yellow. Carol none. 



Male Fi.owehs. Colntnn oCtlie abortive stamina cylindiic, 

 much ibihorter than (he calyx, straii^ht. J^ilamentft scarcely 

 any. Anthers iinbricateil in five fascicles of about five each, 

 which unite below the middle and form a cup round the five 

 imperfect g-ernis. 



Female Heum aphrodite Flowers. Column none. Sla- 

 miiia, five sesi^ile bundles of imperfect anthers embracing- 

 the five grooves of the base of the germs. Germs five, 

 singly setni ovate, one celled, Avith two rows of ovula in 

 each, verlically attached to the inner angle of the cell. 

 Stf/les short, recurved, villous. Stifjntas rather broad and 

 emargiiiate. Follides or lather leifumhions capsules from 

 one to five, from the size of a man's fist, to that of an in- 

 fant's head, nearly round, long-ped uncled, one-celled, otie- 

 valved; vafve thick, lough, and very fibrous; surface dense- 

 ly clothed with a brownish olive, mealy pubescence. Seeds 

 many, attached to the margins of the valve, oblong, consider- 

 ably compressed, each terminated by a long, broad, spongy 

 wing, (hence the specific name,) which becomes thin and 

 sub-membranaceous at the apex, /nteffumeuts three; the er- 

 terior one, a brown, friable, spongy body with a i'ew fibres 

 from the wing ; the middle or second one forms an oval unci- 

 form envelope for the embryo only, and seems composed of 

 three |wuts ; the exterior and interior tln'n, brown and friable, 

 and the middle part thicker, tough and hard; ihe interior 

 integument a thin membrane. Perisperm none. Emhrtjo; 

 cotyledons equal, conform to the seed, three-nerved. Plu^ 

 inula two lobed. Jiadicfe patelliform, lodged inuuediately 

 within the umbilicus, relative, centripetal. 



11. S. ^;?7^w^ R. 



Leaves from five to seven-lobed ; lobes repand, or lobate, 

 firmly acuminate. Panicles pendulous. Follicles oblong, 

 villous, many-seeded. 



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