62 ADDISONIA 
nerves, the lower surface paler than the upper. The inflorescence 
is terminal, ample, up to eighteen inches long, the axis, branches, 
and pedicels minutely pubescent. The irregular polygamous 
flowers are about a half inch in diameter; the sepals are unequal, 
obtuse or acute, about a twelfth of an inch long, ciliate; the four 
upturned petals are linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish, spreading, 
somewhat undulate, yellow, clawed, the claw with two small 
appendages which are at first yellow, later red; the disk is erect, 
lobed. The declined stamens are eight, or sometime es fewer, with 
long hairy free filaments. The ovary is oblong, three-angled, 
pubescent, with a long em ovules in each cell two. The fruit is a 
bla ddery three-lobed capsule up to an inch and a half long. The 
seeds are black, globose, up to a quarter of an inch in diameter. 
GrEorGE V. NASH. 
EXPLANATION OF Pate. Fig. 1.—Portion of flower-cluster. Fig. 2.— 
Staminate flower, X3. Fig. 3.—Perfect flower, X3. Fig. 4.—Fruit. Fig. 5.— 
Leaf. 
