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5-5-32 near base in raceme, each flm axil 1
one of two opp brs, these brs decreasing in size till up-
permost are 30mm long. Allors linear v-like lower br
flms at tip. Only floor apce are a few withed at
tips of branches (stamens fully developed). These
have calyx 8mm high, narrow tubular, narrowing
to base v contracted at apex; 10 red veins (which between
with some cross veins towards apex but can't say
if def anastomosing. Calyx not umbilica, teeth
def ciliate (apart from lines which on this lacks withed
corolla projects only 2mm beyond calyx, limb back
as tho had been reddish but seals v clear greenish.
Limb 2-cleft to the scales & scales 2-lobed. Filaments
glabrosa. On fr. Calyx much the same but swollen
in middle, the tips of teeth slightly spreading
(tho calyx contracted at top) & very slightly longer tho
capsule. Capsule just before opening 7mm v conical
at tip on glabrous scapeplane 2 mm. Seeds less than
1mm, deeply hollowed on side v slightly lobbed but
dived on back, with finely marking encircling
8 small raised lozenges with longest dimension
crosswise of seed. Seed dull brown, edges round.
Fls so shortly pedicelled that they're the upper ones
look sessile. Infl very like ill (Costa) & gallica_
(but filaments not "velutula laxi"), "not at all like ill
(Bon) [all but no help]. If not S. gallica the only pers
in Bar seems S. cerasioides L. Bar 569. Note fr. not
usually all turned to one side but more or less alternately
from one side to the other & except in very lower,