Empalement. Cup one leaf, four-cleft, falling off, flat at the base; segments spreading, egg-shaped, unequal.
Blossom. Four petals, oblong, claws slender, the length of the cup and inserted into the divisions.
Chives. Threads sixteen or more, like bristles, shorter than the blossom. Tips erect, oblong.
Pointal. Seed-bud on a thread-shaped and very long foot-stalk, egg-shaped. Shaft none. Summit sitting on the seed-bud, headed.
Seed-vessel. A Berry? fleshy, globular, large, with a foot-stalk, one-celled, two-valved.
Seeds many, roundish, notched at the end, dispersed in pulp.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Cratæva foliolis elipticis, glabris; floribus umbellatis, terminalibus, luteo-viridibus, petalis longissimis, apicibus crispis.
Cratæva with eliptical, smooth leaflets; flowers grow in umbels, terminal and yellow green; petals very long, crisped at the ends.
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