TURNERACEA’. 
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axillary, usually yellow. — Natives of the West-Indies and 
South-America. 
I. Turnera. 
Calyx tubuloso-infundibuliform. Styles 3, sim 
pie, divided at the end into many-cleft stigmata. 
Named by Linnseus in memory of William Turner, 
M. D., Prebendary of York, Canon of Windsor, author of 
a work entitled “ A New Herbal,” published in folio, 1551. 
a. Flowers petiolar bibracteolated. 
1. Turnera ulmifolia. Common Turnera. 
Flowers sessile, leaves ovato-oblong acute ru- 
gose coarsely serrated pubescent biglandulose at 
the base, bracteoles leaf-like, styles rather longer 
than the stamens. 
Cistus urtiem folio, flore luteo, vasculis trigonis, Sloanc, 
J. 202. t. 127. f. 4. 5. — Turnera^petiolis florens, Browne , 
189 — T. ulmifolia. Swartz, Obs. 1 1 G . — Bot. Mag. 281. 
II A B. Common. 
F L. February. 
Suffrutescent, surviving for two or three years. 
Leaves towards the end of the branches, 2f inches in 
length, and fths of an inch in breadth, lanceolato-oblong, 
serrated strongly nerved and rugulose, covered with a 
soft pubescence. Bracteoe 2, sessile, lanceolate, serrated, 
pubescent, half the length of the calyx to which they are 
appressed, persistent. Flowers solitary, petiolar, on a very 
short peduncle. Calyx three-fourths of an inch long : 
segments lanceolate. Petals half an inch longer than the 
calyx, obovate, shortly clawed, (the claw stained with 
brownish purple), rounded at the apex, spreading. Fila- 
ments rather short, flat: anthers long, subsagittate, re- 
curved at the apex. Ovary ovate, sub-trigonal, hispidu- 
lous : styles 3, erect, longer than the stamens, slightly 
hairy : stigmata multifido-penicilliform. Capsule ovate, 
sub-3-gonal, unilocular, 3-cleft to the middle, opening from 
the apex, the divisions becoming recurved so as to allow 
the seeds readily to escape : seeds ovoid, with the narrow 
end elongated and sligldy curved, dotted on the surface 
in longitudinal lines. 
This is a very common plant. It has a rather large 
