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"at tip pointed, splitting
from one corner.
Corolla gamopetalous 12 in long
narrow tube 1/2 inches, Sangled
purple. Or more expands
to diam 32 in narrowing slightly
deprted into 5 lobes each
with a apical 3 4/2 mm. the
Curl backward are fluted & filled
Cream with 10 purple veins.
very definite from inside. Corolla
only slightly oblique Stamens
& staminal filts [illegible]. Stamens include
all Spring from corolla tube where it begins
to dilate. Filaments extend as
ridges on Corolla tube to 1/2 in below this
point and thence gradually cover whole.
Every segment is to 6x, is flat
seamed, & cell, rules many or
plecentric thus:
Stigma hardly enlarged
and scarcely at all
lobed.
Anthers not seen before pollen shed but after quite best of
small watermelon faced 8
paired from point near
inside center. This effect
may be produced by cells
pressed longitudinally 90° so
that inside peel becomes a
flat exposed surfaces the edges
of the two cells meet.
This st. got this from "Hurst on Range"
N. J. who called it Chalice." She
has never seen it from seed.
East Brunswick?
Zizyphora quitola