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[Plate 67.] 
THE LONG-FLOWERED CENTRANTH. 
(CENTRANTnUS MACROSIPHON.) 
A Hardy Annual from the Soum of SPAiy, hehnging to the Natural Order 0/ Valeriaxwokts. 
^ptti^c Cfjaractrt. 
'JTE 
CENTRANTH.— A smooth 
annual. Stem erect, dwarf, branched, stout, fistular, 
glaucous. Leaves ovate ; the lower short-stalked, entire, 
or obscurely toothed, obtuse ; the upper sessile, sharply 
toothed, more or less deeply cut at the base, with linear 
lobes. Panicles dichotomously corymbose, compact. 
Bracts narrow, linear, with a membranous edge. Flowers 
deep rose-colour. Tube of the corolla three times as long 
as the fruit ; spur thrice as short as the fruit. Pappus 
with black (?) feathery plumes, united at the base by a 
membrane. 
annuus, glaber ; 
CENTRANTHUS MACROSIPHON; 
caule erecto pumilo ramoso crasso fistuloso glaucesccute ; 
foliis ovatis, inferioribus breviter petiolatis integris aut 
obsolete dentatis obtusis, superioribus sessihbus acute 
dentatis, basi magis minusve profunde incisis, laciniis 
linearibus ; paniculis ad ramorum et caidis apicem dicho- 
tome cor^mbosis densifloris ; bracteis anguste lincaribtis 
membranaceo-marginatis ; floribus intense roseis ; corolla} 
tubo fructu triple longiori, calcare fructu triple breviore ; 
pappi setis nigris (?) plumosis inferne merabrana inter se 
coalitis* Walp&rs* 
Centrantlms macrosiphon : ^' Soissier Blagnos, ^l, nov. orient. III. 57," according to Walpers^ Eepertorium, vi. 80. 
A ccoRDiN' G to M. Boissier this grows on damp house-tops {tecta hmida), in the warmest western 
part of the kingdom of Grenada, near the town of Estepona. This author distinguishes it from 
four 
coloured 
as the fruit, 
pappus, of T 
calyx 
M 
sign 
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