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CAROLINEA alba. 
White-flowered Carolinea. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.— Nat. Oud. MALVACEM. 
Gen. Char — Calyx subtruncatus. Filamenla ramosa. Slylus longissimus. 
Stigmata sex. Capsula lignosa, unilocularis, polysperma. — W. 
Carolinea alha ; foliis septenatis, foliolis elliptico-lanceolatis, corolla ex- 
tus fasciculato-tomentosa, tube staminifero longo quinquelobo, fila- 
mentis dichotomis. 
C. alba, LoDDiGES, Bot. Cabinet, t. 752. 
Stem arboreous, of considerable height, twenty feet in the stove of the Liver- 
pool Garden. Leaves upon footstalks, a foot or more long, septenate, 
leaflets from 4, to 6 or even 8 inches in length, elliptical, lanceolate, en- 
tire, glabrous, veined, rather obtuse at the point, at the base tapering ra- 
ther suddenly into a petiole of about an inch in length. 
Fhwers solitary, axillary. Peduncle about an inch and a half long, thick, 
green. Calyx an inch in length, and rather more in breadth, cup-shaped, 
glabrous, green, truncate at the margin, or very obscurely or obtusely 
lobed, within brown and shining, yellow in the lower half Petals five ; 
four or five inches long, linear-oblong, slightly connected at their very 
base, white, with a greenish tinge, or yellowish only in the lower half: 
between membranaceous and carnose, and covered with numerous, mi- 
nute, scattered tufts of short dark fasciculated hairs, which give the whole 
a pubescent appearance, within glabrous. Tube of the slametis about an 
inch and a half or two inches long, cylindrical, white, thick and fleshy, 
at the top five-lobed, having the outside of the lobes bearing a great 
number of long, white, forked Jlaments, ratlier shorter than the corolla, 
each branch tipped with a reniform, single-celled, transverse, brown An-, 
ther, of which the under side is waxy, and apparently discharges pollen 
as well as the vertical suture above, which never appears to expand, but 
which, when cut open, is found to contain also a waxy substance, mixed 
with the pollen. The pollen, however, separates from this, and is seen 
scattered over the surface of the anthers, in the form of triangular, flat 
granules, with a globule at each angle. Sometimes there are two ceUs 
upon one filament; but in that case the filament is not forked : so that 
it would appear, that the bifurcation is the splitting of a filament, each of 
which carries a cell of the anther. Pistil: Germen small, ovato'oblong, 
yellow, with 6 angles, and 6 (or 7) cells, tapering into a filiform style, 
rather longer than the stamens, slightly curved, white at the base, the 
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