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JENKINSONIA Synnoti. 
Mr. Synnot’s Jenkinsonia. 
J. Synnoti, caule basi sufFruticoso ramoso; ramis flexu- 
osis diffusis adscendentibus pilosis, foliis tripartite- 
pinnatifidis subrecurvis supra subpilosis nitidis subtus 
pubescentibus margine ciliatis : segmentis laciniatis ob¬ 
tuse rotundato-dentatis, umbellis subquinquefloris, flo- 
ribus tetrapetalis pentandris, tubo nectariFero calyce 
breviori. 
Stem sufFruticose at the base, branched: branches 
spreading, elongated, flexuose, ascending, more or less 
clothed with unequal hairs. Leaves pinnatifid, ternate, or 
three-parted, the points more or less recurved, margins 
fringed: leaflets or segments spreading, obtuse, sinuate, and 
toothed with unequal bluntly rounded teeth: terminal seg¬ 
ments generally tridentate: upper side of a dark glossy green, 
but slightly hairy, underneath pale green, pubescent. Pe¬ 
tioles furrowed on the upper side and rounded on the lower, 
clothed with short hairs. Stipules cordate, taper-pointed, 
undulate and fringed. Peduncles pubescent, 4 or 5-flower- 
ed. Involucre of 4 or 5 lanceolate, acute, fringed bractes. 
Calyoc 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, taper-pointed, pubes¬ 
cent. Nectariferous tube sessile, shorter than the calyx. 
Petals 4, of a purplish lilac, the two upper ones more than 
double the size of the lower ones, spatulately ovate, very 
narrow towards the base, from whence they are marked 
with 2 dark purple lines that are much branched: lower 
petals spatulately ligulate, not lined. Filaments 10, con¬ 
nected at the base, 5 only bearing anthers: pollen pale 
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