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ginal line runs straight to the extremity, where meeting the ca- 

 rinal, they terminate obtusely. 



Stamina — are what is called diadelphia. The filaments two, 

 of different forms, viz. a lower one that involves the pistillum, 

 and an upper one incumbent on it. The former of these, from 

 the middle downwards, is cylindraceous, membranaceous, and 

 split lengthwise on its upper side ; but the upper half terminates 

 in nine subulate* parts, that are of the same length with, and 

 follow the flexure of, the carina of the corolla, and of which the 

 intermediate or lower radiif are longer by alternate pairs. The 

 upper filament is subulato-setoset, covering the splitting of the 

 former cylindraceous filament, incumbent on it, answering to it 

 in situation, simple and gradually shorter; its base is detached 

 from the rest, and prepares an outlet for the honey on each side. 

 The antherae, reckoned all together, are ten, one on the upper 

 filament, and nine on the lower, each of the radii being furnished 

 with a single one ; they are small, all of one size, and terminate 

 the radii. 



Pistillum — Single, growing out of the receptacle, within the 

 calyx. The germen oblong, roundish, lightly compressed, straight* 

 of the length of the cylinder of the lower filament which involves 

 it. The style subulate, filiform, ascending, having the sama 

 length and position as the radii of the filament among which 

 it is placed, and withering. The stigma downy, of the length 

 of the style from the part turned upwards, and placed frame* 

 diately under the antherse. 



Pemcarpium — A legumen, oblong, compressed, obtuse^ bi- 

 valved, with a longitudinal suture both above and below ; each 

 suture straight,- though the upper one falls near the base, and 

 the lower one rises near the top. The legumen opens at the 

 upper suture. 



* Awl-shaped. Author. 



f Rays, meaning the divisions of the; filaments. AuTKOR,, 

 I Awl-shaped, and like a bristle. Author. 



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