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CAROLINEA asa. 
White-flowered Carolinea. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.—Nat. Orv. MALVACE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyz subtruncatus. Filamenta ramosa. Stylus longissimus, 
Stigmata sex. Capsula lignosa, unilocularis, polysperma—W. 
Carolinea alba; foliis septenatis, foliolis elliptico-lanceolatis, corolla ex- 
tus fasciculato-tomentosa, tubo staminifero longo quinquelobo, fila- 
mentis dichotomis. 
C. alba, Loppices, Bot. Cabinet, t. 752. 
Stem arboreous, of considerable height, twenty feet in the stove of the Liver- 
pool Garden. Leuves upon footstalks, a foot or more long, septenate, 
leaflets from 4 to 6 or even 8 inches in length, elliptical, lanceolate, oe" 
tire, glabrous, veined, rather obtuse at the point, at the base tapering ra- 
© _ ther suddenly into a petiole of about an inch in length. ; 
Flowers solitary, axillary. Peduncle about an inch and a half long, thick, 
green. Calya an inch in length, and rather more in breadth, cup-shaped, 
glabrous, green, truncate at the margin, or very obscurely or obtusely 
lobed, within brown and shining, yellow in the lower half. P. etals five ; 
four or five inches long, linear-oblong, slightly connected at their very 
base, white, with a greenish tinge, or yellowish only in the lower half’: 
between membranaceous and carnose, and covered with numerous, mi- 
nute, scattered tufts of short dark fasciculated hairs, which give the whole 
a pubescent appearance, within glabrous. Tube of the read ne cP 
inch and a half or two inches long, cylindrical, white, thick and fleshy, 
at the top five-lobed, having the outside of the lobes bearing a great 
number of long, whit®, forked filaments, rather shorter than the corolla, 
each branch tipped with a reniform, single-celled, transverse, brown An- 
ther, of which the under side is waxy, and apparently discharges pollen 
_ 88 well as the vertical suture above, which never appears to coped 
which, when cut open, is found to contain also a waxy substance, Seer 
with the pollen. The pollen, however, separates from ee, _- on 
Scattered over the surface of the anthers, in the form of triangular, ls 
granules, with a globule at each angle. Sometimes there are two ce 
upon one filament; but in that case the filament is not forked ; so that 
it would appear, that the bifurcation is the splitting of a filament, each of 
Which carries a cell of the anther. Pistil: Germen small, rt ag 
F yellow, with 6 angles, and 6 (or 7) cells, tapering into a filiform style, 
: rather longer than the stamens, slightly curved, white at the base, the 
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