MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS PYEOLA, 239 
bracleis lanceolatis acutis longiores. Flores globo&i, pen- 
duli, albi, roseo tincti, multo majores P. minore. Caly^ 
CIS lacinice ovatae, acutse. Petala lata, orbiculata. Stamina 
erecta, versus pistillum semper inflexa, petalis breviora: 
filamenta subulata, basi non dilatata : antherte ovatae, 
flavse, foraminibus sessiiibus dilatatis hiantes. Pistillum 
petalis longius: stylus decurvus nunquam adscendens: 
stigma capitatum, obtuse S-lobum, disco depressum. 
This plant, which the older botanists, and some of our 
modern writers, confounded sometimes with minor, some- 
times with rotundifolia^ was first ascertained by the accurate 
SwAaTZ, who has given an excellent description and figure 
of it in the Stockholm Transactions for 1804. Notwith- 
standing the length of time since, and the accurate descrip- 
tion and figure there given, very few botanical writers have 
adopted it since that period. This is the more remarkable, 
as no species can be more distinct. It differs from rotundi^ 
folia by its shorter style, which is curved downwards, not 
declined and ascending as in rotundifolia, of an equal thick- 
ness. The stigma is exannulate, capitate, 5-lobed, depressed 
in the centre. The stamens are erect, shorter than the pe- 
tals, and regularly inflected towards the style. The petals 
are white, tinged with pink. The lacinise of the calyx are 
ovate, acute. The flowers are globose, in a much closer 
and shorter raceme. The scape is acutely triquetrous, and 
spirally twisted. The petioles seldom exceed the length of 
the leaf. 
Sect. 3. 
10. P. minor, foliis subrotundis ovalibusve coriaceis re- 
pando-crenulatis petiolo dilatato longioribus, racemo spicato 
bracteis pedicellis multo longioribus, laciniis calycinis bre- 
vissimis, stylo incluso, stigmate planiusculo 5-lobo. 
