Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org
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Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org
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as the fore-finger. Leaves four to ten inches long by three-<br />
quarters to one and a quarter inch broad, linear-lanceolate<br />
or almost strap-shaped, gradually narrowed to the acumi-<br />
nate point, nearly flat, with five, rarely seven, strong<br />
nerves, dark green, sheaths spotted with red purple; upper<br />
leaves much abbreviated, spathaceous, with acute points<br />
appressed to the stem. Spike three inches to a foot long,<br />
cylindric, obtuse, very many flowered ; bracts oblong-<br />
lanceolate, acuminate, longer or shorter than the orange-<br />
yellow or light red or scarlet flowers. Perianth three-<br />
quarters of an inch long from the tip of the dorsal sepal to<br />
that of the lip, densely crowded, suberect. Dorsal sepal<br />
erect, oblong, subacute, very concave, cymbiform, spurred at<br />
the base behind ; the spur shorter than the sepal, cylindric<br />
or slightly inflated, obtuse, pointing downwards in a line<br />
with the axis of the sepal ; lateral very broadly ovate,<br />
rounded at the tips. Petals much smaller than the sepals,<br />
erect and partially concealed by the upper sepal, linear-<br />
oblong, tip obtuse and incurved. Lip strap-shaped, smooth,<br />
flat or convex, obtuse or subacute, slightly constricted<br />
above the base. Anthers suberect, cells narrow, parallel.<br />
Stigma suborbicular, sessile, depressed in the middle, notched<br />
in front. Ovary about one-third of an inch long, much<br />
twisted.•/. D. H.<br />
Fig. 1, Front, and 2, side view of flower ; 3, ovary, anther, and lip ; 4, anther and<br />
stigma ; 5, pollen-mass :•all enlarged.
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