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HELICTERES verbascifolia. 
Mullein-leaved Button-Wood. 
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MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Bompacex. Kunth. diss. malv. 
HELICTERES L.—Calyx tubulosus, sub-5-fidus. Petala 5, ligulato- 
Unguiculata, superné subdentata. Stamina 5-10-15, longé monadelpha, - 
urceolo apici multifido pilis nonnullis sterilibus. Ovarium longé stipitatum. 
Styli 5, basiconcreti. Carpella 5, 1-locularia, polysperma, intis dehiscentia, 
Seepé in spiram regulariter contorta, interdum recta. Semina exalbuminosa, 
Cotyledonibus spiraliter conyolutis. Dec. prodr. 1.475. 
H. verbascifolia ; foliis cordatis acuminatis serratis tomentosis virentibus, 
pedunculis axillaribus paucifloris, carpophoro longissimo. Dec. J. c. 476. 
H. yerbascifolia. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 504, Link. enum. ber. 2.200. 
Folia cordata, acuminata, subsimpliciter crenato-serrata, utringue pilis, 
nunc simplicibus, nunc stellatis, sericea ;. petioli hispidi ; stipule subulate, 
petiolis breviores. Flores axillares, corymbosi, pedunculati, Soltis breviores. 
Calyx dense pubescens. Petala reflexa, calyce duplo breviora. Tubus 
Stamineus longissimus, filiformis, glaber. : 
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A species of Helicteres introduced a few years since 
from the Brazils. It is a handsome shrub, remarkable for 
its brownish-red flowers, and the rosy, long, filiform tube of 
the stamens. From H. jamaicensis it is distinguished by 
the outline of its leaves, which are never angular or rhom- 
boid, as they often are in that species, by the greater 
breadth of its petals, and especially by the tube of its 
stamens, which is very long and quite smooth, never 
downy as in H. jamaicensis. 
Our drawing was taken at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, where 
the plant is kept in a cool stove. 
Leaves cordate, acuminate, somewhat simply crenate- 
serrate, on each side covered with hairs, which are gene- 
rally simple, but occasionally stellate ; petioles hispid ; 
stipules subulate, shorter than the petioles. « Flowers axil- 
lary, corymbose, stalked, shorter than the leaves. Calyx 
densely pubescent. Petals reflexed, twice as short as calyx. 
Tube of the stamens very long, filiform, smooth. 
J. L, 
