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parallel veins beneath. Szspu/e none. Flowers about the 
middle of the branches, axillary, folitary, fpreading, on 
very fhort, downy /fower-/falks, furnifhed with two or 
three minute, pungent, downy drac/ea. Calyx imbri- 
cated, fmooth, ftriated, pungent; the five innermoft 
leaves lanceolate, nearly equal; the three, four or five 
outer ones much fhorter, broader, and gradually lefs- 
Corolla four times as long as the calyx, crimfon, tubular, 
{welling upwards, externally {mooth, internally very 
hairy, efpecially juft above the bafe; 470 in five linear, 
revolute, hairy fegments. Stamina alternate with thofe 
fegments, and inferted at their bafe, projecting, fimple, 
{mooth; antbere verfatile, incumbent. Germen fmall, 
globular, furrowed, {mooth, invefted at the bafe with a 
fort of entire membrane, probably the necf/arium of So- 
lander ; /y/e capillary, longer than the ftamina; /igma 
fmall, obf{curely notched, fmooth. Fyrziz an oval {mooth 
drupa, which we have only feen half-ripe, but in that 
{tate it plainly exhibited the generic character. 
EXPLANATION or TAB. XIV. 
1. Flower-{talk, bractesxe and calyx. 2. Calyx leaves. 
3. A flower opened. 4. A magnified ftamen. 5. Ger- 
men magnified, with its membrane. 6. Half-ripe fruit 
of its natural fize. 
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