. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Stylid. 404 Dr Graham"'s List of Rare Plants. keel, ciliated at the base, with hairs similar to those on the longer pe- tals, everywhere else sub-glabrous, wliite, and marked in the middle with two transverse red bands, and a few red spots liigher up, truncated at the apex, and there terminated '^ith four blunt revolute teeth, of which the outer are the broadest and longest. Stamens numerous, ten barren placed in pairs within the shorter petals, than which they are scarcely longer, subulate, concave internally, villous, meeting at their points in the
. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Stylid. 404 Dr Graham"'s List of Rare Plants. keel, ciliated at the base, with hairs similar to those on the longer pe- tals, everywhere else sub-glabrous, wliite, and marked in the middle with two transverse red bands, and a few red spots liigher up, truncated at the apex, and there terminated '^ith four blunt revolute teeth, of which the outer are the broadest and longest. Stamens numerous, ten barren placed in pairs within the shorter petals, than which they are scarcely longer, subulate, concave internally, villous, meeting at their points in the centre of the flower; fertile stamens much more numerous, lodged within the longer petals, and erected in succession as in the genus, longer than the shorter petals, glabrous, filiform; anthers versa- tile, yellow, becoming leaden coloured, oblong, bui-sting along the sides, pollen white, granules minute, nearly spherical. Pistil shorter than the stamens ; stigma minute, dentate; style straight, stout, persisting ; germen half superior, the only part within the calyx which has sting- ing hairs, unilocular, bursting by three acute valves in its free portion; placentoe 3, parietal, alternating with the valves. Ovules numerous. Seeds numerous, oblong, dark, reticulated. This is a native of Mexico, and seeds were obligingly communicated to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1841, from tlie London Hor- ticultural Society. Two plants flowered in the stove in January and February 1042, and have ripened seed. It can hardly be considered or- namental, but is interesting as being a perfectly distinct species. ium recurvum, Grah. S. recurvum, caule ramoso, foliis apice ramorum confertis, subulatis, re- cur\-is, marginibus basin versus membranaceis ; peduncuUs confertis, subcymosis, subterminalibus ; germine lineari. Stylidium recurvum, Grak in Bot. Mag. 3913. Description.—Stem (in the specimens described 6 inches high) suffruti- cose, slender, much branched in tufts, and there sen
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