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parallel veins beneath. StipuLt none. Flowers about the 
middle of the branches, axillaiy, folitary, fjjreading, on 
very fliort, downy flower-Jialks^ furnhlied with two or 
three minute, pungent, downy bradlea. Calyx imbri- 
cated, fmooth, ftriated, pungent ; the five innermofi: 
leaves lanceolate, nearly equal ; the three, four or five 
outer ones much fliorter, broader, and gradually lefs* 
Corolla four times as long as the calyx, crimfon, tubular, 
fwelling upwards, externally fmooth, internally very 
hairy, efpecially jufi; above the bafe ; limb in five linear, 
revolute, hairy fegments. Stamina alternate with thofe 
fegments, and inferted at their bafe, projecting, fimple, 
fmooth ; anthera verfatile, incumbent. Germen fmall, 
globular, furrowed, fmooth, invefted at the bafe with a 
fort of entire membrane, probably the neSlarium of So- 
lander ; Jlyle capillary, longer than the ftamina ; Jiig 77 ia 
fmall, obfcurely notched, fmooth. Fruit an oval fmooth 
drupa^ which we have only feen half-ripe, but in that 
fiate it plainly exhibited the generic character. 
EXPLANATION of TAB. XIV. 
I. Flower-ftalk, braCteae and calyx. 2. Calyx leaves. 
3. A flower opened. 4. A magnified ftamen. 5. Ger- 
men magnified, with its membrane. 6. Half-rij^e fruit 
of its natural fize. 
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