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fpirali^. 

 . Flons parvi, fe {Tiles, 5 ad lo difpofiti in glomerulos denfiffimos fpirss 

 in modum circum rachia ordinatos, elongatione fpirse retr.o- 

 tiufculos. Bractea parva lanceolata dicidua infra omnes gio^ 

 merulos, aliasque minutae infra iingulos flares. 



F&rianthium lo v. 12-ph)?llura, patentiCllmum, radiatum ; foliola mi- 

 nima, villofa, ciliata, albicantia, acuta: exterjora 5 v. 6 linearia^ 

 interiora fubfpathulata, illis pariim latiora. 



Filamenta 5 V, Q glabra, capiUaria, perianthio longiora, foliolis ejus in- 

 leriofibus oppofita, patentia. AMherce fufcagj ovats©, didymae, utrio- 

 que dehifcentes, glabrze. 



JS'e^ttri a tot quat ftamina cumque illi& alternantia, carnofay feiniis, Tub- 

 rotunda, majufcula, aurantiaca, villola. 



Ovarium femiinferum, turbinatum, villofum, intra periantbium ovato- 

 aciitum, angulatum, uniloculare", loculo magno lineis duabus vel 

 tribus parietalibus notato, ovulis pluribus iatcribus gregatim adfisis, 

 cyiindricis pendulis. 



Styli duo, e bad lata intus fulcata (perfiltente ?) divergentes, fubula-i. 

 Stigmatamtiim.it globbfa. 



Obfervation, This handfome. tree fprung up acddentally from earth 

 which was recei'/ed from Pegv, in 181 1, and has fince grown to 

 a confidersble iize, with numerous long and flender pendulous 

 branches which it emits from the bafe almoft of the fiiera. It has 

 biofTomed freely daring the three laft years without fhewing any 

 difpofition to produce fruit. In general habit as well as in the 

 peculiarly fetid fmell of the flowers it is exadly like Ludia foetid j, 

 Roxb. Mfs, a fpecies of HomaUum, which the doubts of Jujficu, 

 Willdenom and the author of that article m Rees' new Cyclopaedia 

 fecm to require fhould be united with Blackwellia. The parts 

 of the flower are in that tree more numerous and the llamens 

 fafcicled. It has for many years bloffomed abundantly without 



