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in this petal runs straight as far as the middle, and 

 then rises gradually in the segment of a circle ; but 

 the marginal line runs straight to the extremity, where 

 meeting the canna, they terminate obtusely. 



STAMIMA. Called Diadelphia. The filaments 

 two, of different forms, viz. a lower one that involves 

 the pistillum, and an upper one incumbent on it. 

 The former of these, from the middle downwards, is 

 cylindraceous, membranaceous, and split lengthways 

 on its upper side ; but the upper half terminates in 

 nine subulate (awl-shaped) parts that are of the same 

 length with, and follow the flexure of the carina of 

 the corolla, and of which the intermediate or lower 

 radii* are longer by alternate pairs. The upper fila- 

 ment is subulato-setose (like a bristle,) covering the 

 splitting of the former cylindraceous filament, incum- 

 bent on it, answering to it in situation, simple and 

 gradually shorter; its base is detached from the rest, 

 and prepares an outlet for the honey on each side. 

 The antherae reckoned altogether are ten, one on the 

 upper filament, and nine on the lower ; each of the 

 radii being furnished with a single one ; they are 

 small, all of one size, and terminate the radii. 



PISTILLUM Single, growing out of the receptacle 

 within the calyx. The germen oblong, roundish, 

 lightly compressed, straight, of the length of the cy- 

 linder of the lower filament which involves it. The 

 style subulate, filiform, ascending, having the same 

 length and position as the radii of the filament among; 

 which it is placed, and withering. The stigma downy, 

 of the length of the style from the part turned up- 

 wards, and placed immediately under the antherae. 



PERICARPIUM A Legumen, oblong, compressed, 

 obtuse, bivalvcd, with a longitudinal suture both 

 above and below ; each suture straight, though 

 the upper one falls near the . base, and the lower 



* Rays, meaning the divisions of the filaments. 



