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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNlA. 



calycibiis brevissimis, la- 

 cinia unica linear!, leli- 

 quis quadruplo longiore ; 

 filamentis exertis; ramu- 



longer tlian the segments 

 of the corolla ; calyx verjr 

 short, one of its segments 

 narrow, and four times 



lispiloso-hispidis. Pursh, | longer than the rest j fiia 



1. p. 153. 



ments 

 tube 



3 



longer tlian the 

 smaller branches 



hairy and hispid. 



A. nudiilora, var. dicolor, Hort. Kew. 1. p. 319. 



Flowers slender anJ smaller than the rest, of a pale rose colour, err 

 nearly white, with a deep red coloured tube. 



Grows on barren sandy hills, in Carolina and Georgia. 

 Flowers May — June. 



4. NUDIFLORA. 



A. subnudiflora ; foliis 



Flowers rather naked; 



lanceolato-oblongis, pu- leaves lanceolate oblong, 



bescentibus, nervo subtus 



pubescejit, the nerve be- 



setigero^ corollis pilosis ; | neath bristly ; 



corolla 



staminibus longissime ex- 



hairy ; 



stamens much 



ertis. 



longer than the tube of 



the corolla. 



Sp. pi. 1. p. 831. Walt. B 

 A. periclymenoides, Pursh 



97. 



an obovate, white, very pubescent, caducous bractea. 

 small. Tube of the corolla 



long, 



A shrub 2 — 8 feet high, producing many stems from the roof. <S^/^» 

 branching towards the summit, the young branches pubescent. /-^""^ 

 alternate, crowded towards the summit of the branches on t"^ "^^ 

 ■wood, variable ovate, lanceolate and obovate, slightly mucronate, 

 margins and under surface pubescent, the upper somewhat ga&rou!.. 

 Flowers in terminal, clustered racemes, beginning to open oetore i 



leaves are unfolded ; peduncles about half an inch long, clothed wi 



... . . ? . 1 i„.. (Jaly-^ \eii 



pubescent, viscid; bonier J 

 cleft, expanding : segments unequal- Filaments <^ecliDin;r, unequ , 

 inserted into the base c' the germ, nearly twice as long as the cor 

 Jinthers incumbent, 2 lobed, opening through terminal pores. 



superior, hairy. Stifle longer than the stamens, f ^^'«« ^^^f-P'^sVof 



This is one of the most beautiful plants which adorn the toiesw 

 North America. Some of its varieties are considered by ^^^J^^ 

 sons as the most ornamental of our shrubs. It has been s o«^ ^^^ 

 into several species j three have been inserted from ^^J=»^^,-^ble. 

 Pursh, but their characters appear to me too '"''•''*'"*^* ^ mooortioo 



I have endeavoured to establish characters on t}ic sjze and piop" 



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