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deeply divided into three, nearly equal, lanceolate, acute, spreading^ 

 nnila'eral laciniae, about two lines long; tlie two lateral ones are 

 placed in a straight line and separated by two or three minute, su- 

 bulate, Meshy, permanent toothlets, which seem to occupy the place 

 of the fourth or wanting segment of the dimidiate limb. Corolla in- 

 fundibuliform, densely villous on the outside, pubescent and purplish 

 within, about half an inch long; tube most slender and filiform, twice 

 a* long as the calyx, widening into a short, camnanulate, slightly pli- 

 cate limb, divided into five, lanceolate, cuspidate lobes; estivation 

 valvate.. — Throat pervious. Anthers five, long, linear, sessile in the 

 throat of the corolla, inserted by their middle immediate iy under die 

 fissures which separate the segments, alternating with the in, semi" 

 exserted, spreading. Filaments none except the obscure vanishing 

 Jines tunning down from the place where the antheis are inserted. — 

 Ovary small, inferior, slightly tuibinate, villous, two-celled, each cell 

 containing a pair of erect ovula, inserted on the base of the partiti- 

 on. — Style capillary, nearly twice as long as the corolla, hairy and 

 somewhat thickened at the middle third part. Stigma smooth, di- 

 vided into two, small, parallel, lanceolate lobes. — I have only had 

 opportunities of examining the fruit in an unripe state ; it is some- 

 what fleshy, pink-coloured, pubescent, disposed at right angles in 

 short, broad spikes ; the wings closely imbricating, and crossing eacli 

 other in the most elegant and symmetrical manner, form the anterior, 

 broad, flattish part of them ; and the unaltered sub-adpressed floral 

 bractes constitute the posterior, narrow side; the whole forming large, 

 pink, pendulous, highly ornamental panicles. The body of the fruit 

 small, tin bmate, about two lines long, a little elevated and umbilicateJ 

 stf its free vertex; two-celled, with a pair of erect seeds at the bottom 

 of each cell, or from the base of the partition; I conjecture that it be- 

 comes a capsule of only one cell and with only one seed, as I have 

 frequently found one cf the ovula seemingly enlarged and fecundated 

 while the others remained minute and withered. — It is crowned with 

 the large flat, spreading, unilateral lobes of the calyx, which are now 



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