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Plate 10, A. — Silene struthioloides, of the natural size. Fig. 1. 

 Vertical section of a flower. 2. A petal, with the stamen adnate to 

 its base. 3. Pistil, with its stipe. 4. Capsule, with the persistent 

 calyx, petals, &c. 5. A seed. 6. The same, vertically divided, 

 showing the embryo, &c. — All magnified. 



2. Silene lanceolata, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 10.) 



S. frutescens, ramosa, glabra ; caulibus gracilibiis erectis; foliis lanceo- 

 latis acutis uninerviis basi angustata ciliatis; cyma nuda corymbi- 

 formi; calycibus oblongo-campanulatis, fructiferis ovoideis ; petalis 

 cuneatis integris obsolete coronatis calyce dimidio longioribus; stipite 

 brevi. 



Hab. Ou the mountains of Kauai, one of the Sandwich Islands. 

 Also on Maui (specimen without flowers or fruit). 



Stems one or 2 feet high, branching, woody, but slender ; the branches 

 naked below, and annulate with the approximate scars of the fallen 

 leaves, very leafy above, glabrous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute, 

 or acuminate, one-nerved, sessile, narrowed towards the base, where they 

 are ciliate, otherwise entirely glabrous, rather coriaceous in texture, 

 flat, spreading, II to 2 1 inches long, about 3 lines wide; the floral 

 ones reduced to small subulate and ciliate bracts. Flowers numerous, 

 rather crowded, in a naked and peduncidate corymbiform cyme. Pedi- 

 cels 2 or 3 lines long. Calyx 4 lines long, glabrous, oblong or tubular- 

 campanulate, in fruit becoming ovoid or obovate, five-toothed. Petals 

 " white," nearly twice the length of the calyx, the cuneate or obovate 

 lamina entire or nearly so ; the crown scale-like and minute, or almost 

 obsolete. Stamens 10: the five filaments opposed to the petals adnate 

 only by their very base to the claws. Styles 3. Ovary oblong, 

 three-celled at the base. Stipe very short. Capsule ovoid, not ex- 

 serted from the calyx, six-valved at the summit. Seeds pretty 

 strongly muricate. Embryo curved more than half way round the 

 albumen. — The foliage, although narrower and only one-nerved, and 

 the inflorescence, are somewhat like Saponaria officinalis. 



Plate 10, J?. — Silene lanceolata; of the natural size. Fig. 1. 



