170 rENTANDltlA. DIGTNIA. 



T\hat long-er than the antherkllum and arising' separately 

 from its base; segments compressed, connivent, incurved, 

 fistulous, but impen'ious, intei-nally marginated, margin 

 double, membratiaceous, coalescing at the summit, and 

 there including a minute lamella. Antheridium 5-lobed, 

 winged lateral margin of the lobes broad and membrana- 

 ceous, membrane margined and continued to the summit, 

 tlierc forming a double sinuous pbcature from the centre 

 of which arises the usual cusps of the lobes; cusps con- 

 cave, margins reflected. Lobes of the pollinium minute, 

 alternating in the cells of the antheridium, stipes of the 

 lobes straight, capillary and very long. Stigma discoid, 

 concave, margin 5-toothed. Styles 2, minute. Follicles 

 2. Seeds comose? 



Collected near St. Marj-'s in Florida, by Dr. Baldwyn. 



245. *STYLANDRA.t 



Calix 5-parte(l, minute. Coro//a \vithout tube, 

 o-parted, segments long, erect, and connivent 

 Lepanthium simple, 5 -parted, segments saccate, 

 and compressed, with operculoid, rigidly re- 

 curved points; tube reversed, styloid, very long, 

 supporting the parts of fructification. Stamina 

 as in Asciepias. PoWmia pendulous, even. Fol- 

 Hchs £, long and slender. Seeds comose? 



Stem erect, leaves both opposite and scattered; umbells 

 axillar}^, very few flowered. 



S. pinnila. 



.Isclepias pedicellata. Walter, Flor. Carol, p. 106. A. 

 moschata? Jjartram.. Fls. odorous. 



Descript. lioot perennial. Stem simple, erect, mi- 

 nutely pubescent, slender, (about from 6 to 12 inches high.) 

 .TiCaves opposite and alternate, sessile, linear, acute, mi- 

 nutely pubescent, and somewliat scabrous on the margin. 

 Umbells solitar;-, axillary, 3 or 4-flo\vered, peduncle short; 

 pedicells longer than tlie peduncle. Calix 5-parted, very 

 minute, segments acute. Corolla 5-];arted, lacinise erect, 

 connivent, obl(jni>-ovate, yellowksh-grecn, points deeper 

 coloured. Lepantiiium 5-parted, segments about one third 

 the length of the c(>rolla, sessile, saccate, compressed or 

 carinate, reciprocally confluent at the base; point rigidly 

 inflected, resembling a deflected lid, with a subulate 



I From r^wAo? « ro/«7/j7?., and <5'>';;^, a man, (by analogy, the 

 masculine organs of plants,) the antheridium bemg gup)>orted 

 \ipon a conspicuous style or column. 



