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continuis, brevibus quidem sed sat manifestis, rotundatis, concavis, 
coloratis, margine angustissime albo -limbato subtlissime ciliatis, fere 
contiguis. Petala coriacea oblongo -lanceolata, acumine anguste 
contracto obtuso, concava, dorso acute carinata, glabra, impunctata, 
purpurei coloris, lineam longa, contigua. —4ndromn?tis petala subae- 
quans, ad dimidiam ipsius longitudinem monadelpha, in membranam 
satis conspicuam connata; staminodia 10, extimo ac secundo cyclo 
pertinentia, petalis compage et figura similia, sed angustiora paulloque 
breviora, marginibus imbricata, obtuse acuminata, uninervia, erecta, 
tenuiter punctata, cum filamentis purpurea; haec complanato-subulata 
staminodia nonnihil superantia petalaque aequantia, effoeta erecta, 
aequilonga; antherae luteae, locelli virgineae turgidi plica transversa 
dimidiati, poro postico iuxta insertionem dehiscentes. — Ovarium 
imo calyci immersum. | Qvula in placenta brevissima centrali gemina, 
apposita, erecta, anatropa. Stylus subulatus, robustus, 2 linearum 
spatio et ultra exsertus, coloratus, glaber, apice uncinatus et sub sti- 
gmate minuto punctiformi tenuiter piloso- barbulatus. 
Obs. Planta habitu toto, folus, inflorescentia, ipsaque tubi calycis forma 
Darwiniam spectans, staminodiorum vero collocatione, gravissima nempe nota, 
qua Genetyllis differt ab illo genere, abhorrens. 
IV. DARWINIA Rudge. 
Tab. II. D. 
Darwinia Rudge in Transact. of the Linnean Soc. XI. (1813.) p. 299. 
4 22. D. Don in Edinburgh new phil. Journal, Juli 1829. p. 83. 
G. Don gen. Syst. II. p. 812.  Meisner Gen. p. 107. ( Comment. 
p. 76.) 
Flores in apicibus ramulorum complures fasciculato - congesti, 
singuli folio subflorali vel caeteris conformi vel hebetato membranaceo 
bracteati, subsessiles, bibracteolati. —.Bracteolae liberae, membrana- 
ceae, naviculares, marginibus primum contiguae alabastrumque inclu- 
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