PHILIBERTIA GRA’CILIS. 
“SLENDER PHILIBERTIA. 
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GENUS. Puitisertia. Humporr and Kunra. Cauyx 5-partitus. Corou- 
LA urceolato-rotata, sinuato-quinque-loba, lobis acutis denticulis interjectis ; 
tubus brevis, mediante toro carnoso apice quandoque annuliformi et undulato 
gynostegii (columne staminex Brown) basi adnatus. Corona staminea sim- 
plex, 5-phylla, foliolis carnosis summo gynostegio insertis, integris. HERE 
membrana terminate. Mass pollinis clavato- cylindracee, ad apicem fere 
afixe. Stigma brevissimum vel breviter pects apice biapiculatum. 
Hooxer, a of Botany, Vol. 1, p. 290. 
TES. Purreerria craciuis. D. Dov. Foliis profunde cordatis 
cuminatis subt Miah corolla calyce ter longiore, coronz interioris foliolis 
ventricosis antic? mucronatis. Sweet's Flower Garten folio 403. 
CuaracTer or THE Genus, Paruipertia. Caryx 5-parted. 
Coroxa urceolate-rotate, ‘sinuately 5-lobed, lobes acute with little 
teeth interposed; tube short, adnate by means of a fleshy torus, by the 
apex, and, when the torus is ring-shaped and undulating, to the base 
of the gynostegium (the staminal column of Brown.) S7Taminat co- 
RONA simple, 5-phyllous; folioles fleshy, inserted on the top of the 
Synostegium, entire. ANTHERS terminated by amembrane. Pot- 
LEN MASSES cylindrically -club-shaped, attached almost to the apex. 
Stigma very short, or shortly beaked, two-pointed at the apex. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PHILIBERTIA GRACILIS. PLANT 
perennial, entirely clothed with soft spreading hairs. Stems very 
slender not thicker than a crow-quill, twining, attaining the length of 
six feet. Leaves opposite, petiolate, cordate, oblique, acuminate, 
pubescent, soft, of a greyish green, lighter on the under~ surface. 
PETIOLEs slender, about half-an-ineh long. INFLORESCENCE umbel- 
late; umbels solitary, interpetiolary, of from 3 to 5 flowers. PEDUN- 
CLES filiform, from 1 to 2 inches long; pedicels bracteate, about half- 
an-inch in length. Bracts linear, acute. CaLyx of 5 leaves coher- 
ing at the base; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading. Co- 
ROLLA three times as long as the calyx, campanulate, externally hairy, 
