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_MASSONTA grandiflora. - 
Largeflowered Massonia. 
hig Sr, — 
‘al _ HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
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' Nat. ord. AspuovELes. imi ger} 
MASSONIA. Supra vol. 9. fol. 694, 
M. grandiflora ; foliis flaccidis subrotundo oblongis, obtusis, carnosis, nervosis 
glaberrimis, laciniis perianthii patenti-reflexis obtusis staminibus pauld 
brevioribus, melle copiosissimo. | ; 
Folia bina, humi prona, 9-uncialia, subrotundo-oblonga, carnosa, glaber- 
vima, obtusa, ad basin attenuata, et paululim rubicunda. Capitulum (race- 
mus depressus) subsessile, in sinu foliorum, circiter 30-florum, depressum, 
diametro 2 unciarum; bracteis magnis, imbricatis, ovatis, acuminatis, glabris 
obvallatum. Flores cum pedicellis unam unciam longi, bracted ovato-acumi- 
nate apice viridi suffulti. ZEstivatio serid duplict imbricata. Perianthium 
infundibulare, tubo terete carnoso, glabro, albo, melle copiosissimo amariusculo 
repleto; limbo exacté 6-partito, lacinits ovatis obtusis margine membranaceis, 
albis, medio viridibus, staminibus paululiim brevioribus, basi intrusis: interi- 
oribus angustioribus. Stamina 6, carnosa, basibus connata in annulum orem 
tubi coronantem, erecta, estivatione conniventia ; filamenta viridia, subulata ; 
anther antice, adnate, biloculares; loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 
Pollen lutewm, sub lente fortissimo filis paucis hic illic coherens ; granulis 
minutis glabris oblongis: siccitate depressis medio foveatis ; humectatis sub- 
rotundo-oblongis, superficie levigatd, foved nulla, demium, si non dehisceant, 
rugulosis (non autem areolatis), Ovarium superum, obovatum, hexangulare, 
triloculare, polyspermum, inter loculos lacunosum, ovulis parvis seriebus 2 v.3 
placentd insertis, horizontalibus. Stylus subulatus, staminum longitudine, 
spiralis, 3-sulcatus. Stigma punctum simplex. 
hi 
/ We scarcely know whether this plant is more than a 
variety of M. longifolia figured in volume 9, p. 694 of this 
work. It agrees with that species in habit, and in the 
general arrangement of its parts, but it seems to be mate- 
rially distinguished by the form of the divisions of the peri- 
anthium, by the greater magnitude of all its parts, and by 
the copious secretion of honey which the tube of the 
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