CVIIL. 
ERODENDRUM TURBINIFLORUM. 
Top-flowered Erodendrum. 
Ordinem Naturalem et Characterem Generis, vide sub No. 67. 
* Flores ramis majoribus terminales. 
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£. caule nano: foliorum laminis 4-7 pollices longis, anguste lanceolatis, margine crassiusculis, mu- 
cronatis, adultis vix pubem dimittentibus, scabris: bracteis involucri spatulato-lanceolatis, extus 
tomentosis: corollis barb4 crispa truncato-implexis. 
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Sponte nascentem in Hottentots Holland, montibus, legit J. Niven. 
Floret apud nos Maio. 
ing me for allusions of this sort, he would have been more consistent in omitting such a passage ; 
but I defer what I wish to say upon the subject to another opportunity, after reminding him, that 
the attack there like all his others, is so notoriously unjust, as to do me service. 
Stem very dwarf, flowering when a few inches high, thick, branching immediately under the 
flower. Leaves crowded : Petiole reddish, narrow, short, half round, flat on its upper surface: La- 
mina dull green, from 4 to 7 inches long, about 1 inch broad, variously reclined, narrowly lanceo- 
ly on its under surface; the principal nerve large, lateral ones very slender; more or less waved, 
hard and tough. Flowers without smell, Bractes of the Involucrum deep claret colour but exter- 
ternally covered with white cotton: divisions of the upper lip ending in a long awn, bearded ri a 
extremity with brown curling hairs closely frizzled together into a level surface, so that the whole 
head of flowers is shaped like a boy’s top: lower lip lanceolate at the extremity cine sec eg 
Anthers pale yellow with a dark red spatulate top, narrow and long. Pollen yellow oe: “ . 
Style dark red towards the top. Stigma dark red, somewhat flexuose at the base, clubbed at the end, 
grooved as in many others. , 
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