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tire. Stamens 4 fertile, didynamous. Filaments compressed,
arched, white, stained with purple, the lower pair longest;
sterile one straight, as long as the shorter pair, white, glabrous,
with a pale blue compressed, cuneate apex. Ovarium
ovate, oblong, green, shining. Style slender, filiform, deep
purple. Stigma small, blunt, white.
By far the most beautiful of this showy genus, discovered
by Mr. Douglas on the banks of Spoken river in North-west
America, and introduced by him to the garden of the Horticultural
Society, in 1827. The plant is still rare in collections,
from the sparing manner in which it affords slips, and
from its seeds being seldom matured, except ¡under favourable
circumstances. It is found to succeed best in a mixture
of peat and loam, and continues in flower the greater part
of the summer.
Our drawing was taken from a plant which blossomed in
Mrs. Marryat’s Collection in June last.
The generic name is derived from ttevte, five, and o-tjjjkov,
stamen, from the presence of the rudiment of a fifth stamen.
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