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shm -fV straight,shoit hairs round the edges- loioer lin 3 ffririin ged wT itih
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down to the parting on each side, the segments nearlv
equal, bkmt. Stamens 5, four fertile and one barren the
b an en filament about half the length of the fertile ones
attached to the tube a little abovS the base pafo red ’
smooth at the point, but clothed with long whke hairs
from about half-way to the base, in s e rte d \Itw e e n the
two shortest fertile stamens at the back - the two front
ones rather longest, all slenderest at the base and wident
e S S f ’th H attached to
vSln I ’ thickly clothed more than half w ay up with
yel ow hairs : anthers kidney-shaped, densely c L h e d
with thick white wool. Ovarium smooth.. Styk smooth
c a S t l ^ ^ ^ stamens. Stigma obtuse, but scarcely
be a r o " L t ; r r e r S - « ^ o tb e r , it will
: 5 S £ # i # S S B i F i : is g p S S E S ^
a so C. imberbts, and C. gentianoides, of Kuntb - and fn t ! f ’
all the species with the blarded sterile f ila r e n t’ that h L e L ! “ ’
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e geneuc name is from a tortoise, the flowers of the oris-i
nal species bearing a strong resemblance to that animal. ^
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