158 PENTANDKIA MOSTOGYNJA. PsathurCtl 



linear, Iongish, persistent, sub-equal lacinias. Corolla hypocrateriform, 

 pubescent; tube slender, cylindric, straight, two inches long, widen- 

 ing a little under the apex, the inside villous downwards.— Limb small 

 spreading, consisting of five, ovate, acute segments, measuring 

 three lines in length, the upper surface towards the margins beard- 

 ed with long white soft hairs. Faux very narrow. — Stamina insert- 

 ed at the widening apex of the tube and enclosed within it. Fila- 

 ments very short, subdecurreut; anthers linear, erect.— Ovarium 

 obovate, pubescent, with two opposite furrows, two-celled ; ovula 

 numerous, imbricated, subulate, attached by their centre to a parietal, 

 sub-globular, fleshy placenta. — Style capillary, nearly as long as the 



tube, smooth, with two opposite furrows Stigma oblong, pubescent, 



immediately below the faux, two-lobed ; lobes linear, diverging. — 

 Capsule oblong, clavate, with convex sides, two-thirds of an inch 

 long, pubescent, marked with ten elevated capillary ribs, crowned 

 with the persistent calycine laciniae, and elevated considerably within 

 them in the shape of a cone, which bursts into two sub-erect valves, 

 each of which splits again down to the base in two-lanceolate, acute 

 lobes, which gives it the appearance of being four-valved; two-celled, 

 many seeded.' — Dissepiment very thin, entire, persistent, its apex 

 at length free. Flacenta linear and very narrow, attached longitudi- 

 nally to each side of the dissepiment. — Seeds numerons, linear, densely 

 imbricated, smooth, terminated at each extremity by a long, linear, 

 membranous, sometimes bifid appendage, measuring altogether three 

 lines in length,, 



PSATHURA. Jus§> 



Calyx superior, from four to six-toothed. Carol one-petalled j 

 tube short and hairy within ; border from four to six-parted. Germ 

 five- celled ; cells one-seeded, attachment inferior. Drupe inferior, 

 from four to six-celled. Nuts solitary, one-seeded. Embryo erect, 

 and furaished with aa ample perispernu 



