. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . annelled, 3 times shorter thanthe blade. Flowers at the upper pait of the stem, axillarj,soUtary, pointing one way: peduncles spreading, sometimesabout two inches long: bracfes 2, small opposite, linearlysubulate, at a distance from the flower. Calyx greenish,cartilagineo-membranous, many times shorter than the co-rolla, nearly equal, scarcely I of an inch deep, imbricatelyconnivent; leaflets obcordately oblong, elliptical, retuse,smooth. Corolla rotately funnelform; limb large, purphshcrimson, marked in the disk with an unequally po
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . annelled, 3 times shorter thanthe blade. Flowers at the upper pait of the stem, axillarj,soUtary, pointing one way: peduncles spreading, sometimesabout two inches long: bracfes 2, small opposite, linearlysubulate, at a distance from the flower. Calyx greenish,cartilagineo-membranous, many times shorter than the co-rolla, nearly equal, scarcely I of an inch deep, imbricatelyconnivent; leaflets obcordately oblong, elliptical, retuse,smooth. Corolla rotately funnelform; limb large, purphshcrimson, marked in the disk with an unequally pointed paleyellow star surrounded by a purple radiant halo: tube thelength of the cah-x; /l/z/j short. Stamens protruding be-yond the faux: Jilaments subulate, attached to the inneredge of the base of the tube, channelled inwards below,glandularly ^-illous, 4 times longer than the anthei-s or more:anthers oblong, sagittate, narrow, blackish red at the small, conical, smooth, seated upon a thick roundishdepressed far wider orange-coloured 323 RHEXL\ Rhexia. OCTANDRIA (DECANDRIA) MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. : f recentius ;). Jussieu s:en, 11. RHEXIA. Cal. cum germine, et dein cum capsula partim v. omnindconferruminatus (v. germine et capsula liberus). Pet. 4-5-6. Stam. 8-10-12, omnind libera. Caps, sicca, calyce obtecta. Sem. plurima receptaculisaxi centrali adhaerentibus, et in unoquoque loculo singulis inserta. Venternat in mem. de Vinst. 1807. 8. 11. (sub Meriana et Rhexia). R. holosericea^ foliis subcordato-ovalibus, utrinque sericeo-tomentosis, 7-nerviis, sessilibus: panicula terminali: floribus bracteaceis et Bonpl. Rhexia. 29. t. argentea. Lamarck encyc. 4. 45. Frutex \0-pedalis, sericeo-tomentosus (sericeo-pilosusJ. Rami oppositi^acuti, tetragoni. Fol. approximata, pate7itia, sessiliay subcordata, ovalia,crassa, utrinque sericeo-tomentosa pilis densissimis incumbentibus, 7-9
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