ae eae 
fugacious, tender, oboyately spatulate, undulate, shorter 
than calyx, upper two largest. Filaments enclosed, hairy, 
inserted in two alternating series in the faux of the calyx, 
five shorter than the rest, uppermost two-bearded, with 
dense purplish wool close under the anther. Style white, 
enclosed, subulately lengthened, nearly smooth, with a few 
downy hairs scattered above the middle, curved at the top, 
persistent, continuous with the thin membranous white 
tapered germen: stigma subcapitate. 
The drawing was taken late in the autumn at the nur- 
sery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Parson’s 
Green, where it was kept in the greenhouse. — 
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a A flower dissected vertically, showing the insertion of the petals into 
the calyx, and that of the stamens. 6 The pistil. 
c 2 
