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seeming stolones most commonly they have a 

 small leaf similar to the larger ones in whose 

 axilla a partial pedunclel is formed, which with 

 its flower on the end bends down to ground & 

 almost covers the flower in the ground : from 

 there the peduncul goes on in a similar man- 

 ner with opposite bracteis & one partial peduncul 

 on each joint, so that it forms a kind of racem 

 with 3 or at most 4. flowers ; in this manner of 

 flowering it differs from all the rest. The flow- 

 ers are small & very inconspicuous, they are all- 

 ways nodding down & never open entirely ; the 

 calyx consist out of 5 unequal leaves in size but 

 equal in length ; they are acute & two or three 

 of them have a projection behind, in the same 

 manner as some of the plants of tetradynamia 

 siliquosa have : they are of a purplish green & 

 very frequently spotted. The 5 petals are lineare 

 & acute : the upper one is the longest, but only 

 «'qu;il in length to the calyx, & likewise 

 the broadest, generally white with red & 

 purple stripes, & red or pink towards the 

 point ; the two lateral ones snorter and nar- 

 rower, white with but little red in them ; the two 

 lower ones very short & very narrow & white. 

 The 5 stamina have purple filaments & large 

 yellow anthers with a conical white projection or 

 process on the top : they are entirely free, the 

 gernien is as long as the filament 3-angulare & 

 greenish. The style short & with his hairy stig- 

 ma only the length of the filament. The cap- 

 sule is 3-angulare with rounded angles, smooth 

 & considerably large for the size of the flower ; 

 it is green spotted with purple & sometimes en- 



