NAT. ORDER 
Scitaminece. 
STRELITZIA REGINiE. LANA-LEAYED STRELITZIA. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, superior. Corolla, irregular and tubular. 
Petals, three. 
Spe. Char. Ovarium, three-celled. Fruit, capsular. Seeds, round, 
without arillus. 
This is a genus affording a plant of the herbaceous, exotic, 
perennial kind. The calyx is a universal spathe, terminating, one- 
leafed, channelled, acuminate, from spreading declining, many-flow- 
ered, involving the base of the flowers ; partial spathes lanceolate, 
shorter than the flowers; perianth none ; the corolla is irregular ; 
'petals three, lanceolate, acute, the lowest boat-shaped, the two upper 
bluntly keeled ; nectary three-leaved ; the two lower leaflets a little 
shorter than the petals, from a broad base awl-shaped, waved at the 
edges, folded together, including the genitals, towards the tip, behind 
augmented with a thick appendix, in form of half an arrow-head ; 
the lowest leaflet short, ovate, compressed, keeled ; the stamens have 
five filaments, filiform, placed on the receptacle ; three in one leaflet 
of the nectary, two with the style enclosed in the other leaflet ; an- 
thers linear, erect, commonly longer than the filaments, included ; the 
pistil is an inferior germ, oblong, obtusely three-cornered ; style fili- 
form, the length of the stamens ; stigmas three, awl-shaped, higher 
than the petals, erect, at the beginning of flowering time glued to- 
gether ; the pericarp is a subcoriaceous capsule, oblong, obtuse, in- 
distinctly three-cornered, three-celled, three-valved ; the seeds are 
numerous, and adhering in a double row to the central receptacle. 
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