WITSE’NIA CORYMBOSA. 
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GENUS. Witsenra. Txunsere. Corona regularis, tubulosa, limbo six- 
partito, vel tota hexapetalo-partita. Sramina erecta, laciniarum basi adnata. 
Stiemata tria. _ Carsuxa 3- es a, ipolyeperpe. Semina augilato prema 
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sum tendentia, flabellatim disticha, basin versus pone equitantia, sea 
nsiformia, conduplicanter fissilia, superiora lon 
SPECIES. Whrsenta <—e Gs floribus corymbosis, Cor- 
olla hypocrateriformii, glab 
CHARACTER OF THE fae Wirtsenta. Coro.ta regular, tubu- 
lar, with a six-partite limb, or cut nearly to the base into six petals. 
STaMeEns erect, inserted into the base of the segments. Stiemas three, 
(4-6.) CapsuLe three-celled, many-seeded. Seeps angular from 
mutual impression. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, WITSENIA CORYMBOSA. SUFFRU- 
_ TicosE (the specimen described forming a round bush, 23 feet high.) 
Stem at first flat and two-edged, but becoming round, and having a 
rough brown cracked surface, much branched, the branches erect, soon 
becoming naked below, and towards the apex giving origin to many 
leaves which are distichous, equitant, flat, glaucous, and in their upper 
half linear-lanceolate. PEpUNCLE terminal, flat, and two-edged, less 
glaucous than the leaves, corymbose, the branches trigonous, spring- 
ing from the axils of sharply keeled and gradually diminishing bracts. 
At the base of each branch there is generally a fascicle of pedicellate 
flowers, each pedicel having at its base a small brown scale, and at its 
apex three, the two outer of which are equitant and herbaceous, the © 
inner larger, membranous, bifid at the apex, involute, inclosing the 
germen and lower part of the tube of the corolla. PrrianrH single, 
of fine azure blue, salver-shaped, the tube cylindrical, twice as long as 
the inner scale; limb six-partite, imbricated in bud, as long as the 
