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30 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
ium MESE are S. tenuifolium, convolutum, palmifolium, flexuosum and er S. ei ذ‎ is 
gre? by its entire-edged calyx ; S. convolutum, by its fibrous roots; S. palmifolium, by its bu oot and 
white flowers ; S. flexuosum, by its crooked stem and its Fee — ovaries ; and S. graminifolium, with in varieties, 
only by its undivided bracts, cylindrical smooth stem, and rough leav 
502. PENTARHAPHIA VERRUCOSA. Decaisne. (alias Conradia verrucosa Scheidweiler.) A rigid 
greenhouse shrub, with pase scarlet flowers. Belongs to Gesnerads. Native of Cuba. Intro- 
duced by re (Fig. 2 
a plant not uncommon in gardens, called Pentarhaphia cubensis, which is so like this as to suggest the 
لد‎ " the two belonging to the same species. Both were found by Mr. Linden in Cuba: that no Pear on 
Mount Liban, flow wering in May ; the other ata place ealled Pinal de Nimanima, both in the province of St. J They 
De Candolle unadvisedly acquiesced in it. But Prof. Decaisne, in a luminous paper in the Annales des Bino for 
ES restored the genus Pentarhaphia, inereasing the number of its species to fifteen, and left Von Martius' name of 
nradia for one species only, the era humilis of Linnszus, The genus Pentarhaphia still then continues to be 
Ben by the five long needle-like teeth of its iod inferior calyx, its five to ten-ribbed fruit, and its annular disk. 
The wild speeimens of Pentarhaphia verrucosa brought from Cuba by Mr. Linden, are dotted with a glutinous 
exudation, and the leaves are much harder, stiffer, and more bullate than in the garden plant. 
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