PEN'TANDnrA MONOGYNli^. 



i^QQ 



tubi Inserta. Sem'ma a- [ bling bracteas. Fila?nents 



inserted at the base of the 



iata. 



tube. 



1, PCBENS. 



Seed winged. 



Mich. 1. p. 105. t. 13.. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 372. Pursh, 1 . p. 158 



A large shrub, 15— £0 feet high, with manj stems from each root; 

 branches brachiate j the younger tomenfose. Leaves opposite, large, 

 lanceolate; entire, sliglitly acuminate, siiiaing on the upper surface 

 mough sfyrinkled with hairs, tomeutose on the lower ; petiole a« 

 wilt an inch long, tomentose. Panicles terminal and axiilarv, 

 imposed of fascicles commonly 5 flowered. Ca^yx superior, "s 

 parted, persistent, sliglitly coloured j segments sometimes equal, 

 linceoiate, and acuminate ; frequently one and sometimes two seg- 

 ments dilate into a large, ovate, veiny, rose coloured leaf; when 2 seg- 

 ments dilate they are never equal in size. Corolla tubular j the tube of 

 »flooscure green colour, tomentose; border 5 parted ; segments oval, 

 rotuse, purple. Filaments inserted into the base of the corolla, lonarer 

 raantaetube. »3niA«rs incumbent, 2 celled. (?gr/n turbinate. 



'fiorter than the stamens. 



Style 



Stigma obtuse. Capsule nearly globose, 



epening at the summit across the dissepiment. Seeds flat, orbicular, 

 »ttaiched to a central receptacle. 



Ihis genus is very nearly allied to Cinchona. It differs in its calyx, 

 wt principally by the t ■"-■'' "''■ '~ 



Grows m wet and boggy suns, is luuuu 



Jfnlma, along the sea coast to Florida ; its southern or western U- 

 •sit IS unknown. 



Is found from Xew River, South- 



lowers May— June. 

 "^his genus was nai 

 f-stesworth Finchietf. 



Michaujc in honour of 



Charles 



TRIOSTEUM. Gen. pl. 300. 



nionopetala, 



Corolla 



s?ba3qualis 



Wine corolla. ^ Baeca 



^^•locularis, s-sperma, in- 



Perf 



Corolla one petalled, 



Calfjx Ion- I nearly equal. Calyx as 



long as the corolla. 



Ber- 



ry 3 celled, 3 seeded, in 

 ferior. 



Y foliis connatis, spath- 1 Leaves connate, spath- 

 ^ato-lanceolatis, acumi- ulate lanceolate, acumi- 

 "atis ; floribus sessilibus 

 ^^^icillatis. 



990 



Sp.pl 



P 



nate; flowers sessile, ver- 

 ticillate. 



'^•J^ajus, Mich. I. p. 1Q7. 



