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NATURAL niSTORY OF PLANTS. 



Glossoslemon Brugieri, a Persian shrub, with large palminerved 

 leaves covered with stellate hairs, represents alone a special sub- 

 series, because its stamens, thirty-five in number, are arranged in 

 five alternipetalous bundles, each formed of six stamens, with extrorse 

 anthers, and surmounted by a petaloid tongue. Its fruit is an 

 elongated capsule, bristling with prickles, and polyspermous. Its 

 glabrous seeds enclose under their thick coats an embryo analogous 

 to that of the greater part of the Buettneriads. 



VII. LASIOPETALUM SERIES. 



This series was at first formed of the single genus Lasiopetahtm, 1 

 from which it derives its name. Since then it has been divided into 



Thomasia corylifolia. 



Fig. 131. 

 Bud (f). 



Fig. 130. 

 Floriferous branch . 



Fig. 133\ 

 Long. sect, of flower (f ). 



Fig. 132. 

 Expanded flower (f ). 



1 Sm., in Tram. Linn. Soc, iv. 216.— J. Gay, H. Bn., in Adansonia, ii. 178 • ix. 341.— B. H , 



in Mem. Mus., vu. 445, t. 18, 19.— DC, Prodr., Gen., 228, 984, n. 40.— Corethrostyles Endl., 



i.489.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 495.-Endl., Nov. Stirp. Mus. Pindob. Bee, n. 1; Gen,, n. 



Gen., n. 5325. — Paver, Organog., 41, t. 9. — 5326. 



