Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

inches high, with, rosulate radical leaves, and a simple
slender leafy scape, bearing a spike of white flowers with
very long pc rianth-segments and minute stamens. Leavps,
radical two to three inches long, sessile or narrowed into a
stout or slender petiole, variable in shape, from liriear-oblong
to broadly elliptic, acute, irregularly toothed or almost en-
tire, dark green on both surfaces, midrib very distinct,
nerves very oblique ; cauline leaves linear, quite sessile.
Scape strict, acutely angled, as is the rachis of the spike.
Spike at first oblong, obtuse, usually lengthening to four or
five inches, strict, erect, many-flowered. Flowers quite
sessile and appressed to the rachis ; bracts and bracteoles
none. Perianth about three-quarters of an inch in diameter
across the segments, pure white ; segments six, or four, the
two lower being suppressed, or three, with the three lower
suppressed, all widely spreading, strict, narrowly linear, but
slightly dilated from the base to the obtuse point ; two
upper (when four or six) the longest, about half an inch
long ; two lateral about one-third shorter, ascending ; two
lower very short, deflexed. Stamens six, filaments very
short and stout ; anther-cells reniform, adnate to the fila-
ment, bursting outwards. Ovary globose, three-lobed,
three-celled ; stigmas three, recurved, club-shaped, obtuse ;
ovules two in each cell, adnate to the middle of the inner
angle, anatropous, with ventral raphe and superior large
open micropyle.•/. D. H.
Fig. 1, Flower with three perianth-segments seen in front; 2, another with six
seen from the back; 8, back and front view of stamen ; 4, ovary; 5, section of the
same ; 6, ovule :•all enlarged.