CROOMIA PAUCIFLORA. 
FEW-FLOWERED CROOMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER, ROXBURGHIACEZE. 
CROOMIA PAUCIFLORA, Torrey.—Perianth deeply four parted, persistent, the spreading nerve- 
less oval divisions imbricated in the bud. Filaments separate, thick, erect, inserted on the 
base of the perianth opposite its lobes: anthers short, oblique, with the connective short 
or wanting. Ovary globose-ovate, sessile. Stigmatwo-lobed. Ovules four to six. Fruit 
follicular, beak-pointed, at length two-valved. Seeds one to four, obovate, suspended 
from the nerve-like, at length free placenta, nearly covered by the fibres of the cord. 
Embryo minute, obovate, (Chapman’s Flora of the Southern United States.) 
NRAIN giving a general view of the Flora of the United States 
mil we have endeavored to make the selections from as 
many different natural orders or botanical groups as possible, 
so as to assist the student in his botanical studies, at the same 
time keeping an eye in the selections, to those which, from their 
intrinsic beauty or other popular points of interest commend 
themselves to the mere lover of wild flowers, or to those who 
simply wish to follow in the wake of polite intelligence. But in 
looking about for a representative of the natural order Rox- 
burghiacee, we are deprived of all choice, as it has but the single 
genus Cyooma in the United States, and this genus is repre- 
sented bya single species only, Croonua pauciflora, the plant now 
illustrated. Yet aside from this reason for its present introduc- 
tion, and even were it objected that it has little beauty of coloring 
to claim our attention, there are so many points connected with its 
botanical and popular history, and so much that is particularly 
instructive to the student, that it would be unjust to the aim and 
objects of our work not to give it an honored place among 
our “native flowers.” 
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