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P E T A L U M. 
From the Top of the Seed Veflel fprings tl^e Petalum of this 
Flower, by a tubulous Beginning, but it is afterwards parted moft 
commonly into five Segments, lometimes into four or three only. 
The lower or tubulated Part is exactly in the Shape of the Neck 
of a common Funnel, being narrower at Bottom than at Top 5 
and the Length of it is between a quarter and three eighth Parts 
of an Inch, The Segments do not run up from it in a ftrait 
Line, but go off almoft at right Angles, and fo form rather a 
Difcusj than the upper Part of an Infimdihulum, in the Senfe afi 
figned to thele Terms by Tournefort. They are all pretty much 
of an equal Length in the fame Flower, being commonly about 
half an Inch. Neither do they differ any other ways in Figure, 
five only that fome of them continue of an equal Breadth thro’ 
their whole Length, others begin, a little way from their Extre- 
mity, to contrad: by degrees. The Colour of both Parts and 
both Sides of the Petalum is the fame, a very pure white ♦, which 
however I have fometimes obferv’d to be brighter in the Segments 
than in the Tuhulus. 
STAMINA, 
The Stamina arife from the Infide of the lower Part of the Pe- 
talumy always equal in Number to the Segments thereof, of a 
white Colour, and a very finall Size. Before they reach as high 
as the Origin of the Segments, they ceafe to adhere to the Tulu- 
lus, and run up a little way above it, being, as far as they are 
diftinclly vifible, never above three eighth Parts of an Inch in 
Length. 
APICES, 
.To each of the Stamina is join’d an A^ex or Pendant, fome- 
thing longer than they are, and of a very different Figure. I 
know nothing they can be fo juftly compar’d to as the Claws of 
fome finall Birds j for they are crooked or bent fulcated on the 
concave Side, and bigger at Bottom than at Top. In this Sulcus 
the Stamma are fix’d, a little above the lower Extremity 5 fo that 
thefe and the Apices have an oblique Situation, with refped: to 
one another. All the convex Side of the Apices is of a whitifh 
yellow Colour, the concave Side of a dark brown. 
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