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3-29-33 pubescent. Calyx x 5 lanceolate lobes (somewhat
unequal) x of the pubescent inside. Corolla x
5-6 lobes with 5-6 alt. stamens. Corolla purple (with tube
tightly) more or less rusty at tip; bud outside with
gland-pubesce Stamens attached to tube. File-
ments with conspicuous down-pointing hairs.
Ovary superior, beaked inside part with upwar
pointing hairs, Styles two slender, enlarged
purple
at top into green capitate stigmas (Effect is like
a very slender cornucopia) whose edges are
mordled. Ovary 1-celled with two paretal
placenta, meeting in center of cell
in such a way that it can easily be
t mistaken for two celled. Ovules many.
823
3-20<sup>33</sup> Senecio Rodriguezii Willd. Kunth. Bar 242. F-l.
F-l. Dr. Lord Alandia.
824
4-2-33 Romulea parviflora J. Britton (see 3-3-32)
Fl. Mrs. Harris, Cascatale'. Pet. whitish with purple
veins, 8 mm high. The upper (i.e. inner) spathe valve
thin and venous. Evidently the same species as
3-20-33 #632 from Porto-Pi which New named
R. Columnae Sibbaldius. *(neither fresh nodes does this
show the regular parallel veins of the lower leaf
valve in 824 nor of that leaf valve in 825)