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FRANCÒ A ramosa.
White-flowered Francoa.
Umiean Class and Order. O C T A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA
l S 2 t p " 7 l D . Don in Edinb. P h il. J o um . Dec
F R A N C O A . Suprà fol. 15 1.
F . ramosa segmentis calycinis ovato-lanceolatis acutis Imviusculis, stami-
mbus sterihbus o b te is , stigmatibus cuneatis bilobis, scapo ramoso.
Ira n c o a ramosa. D . Don in I. c. p . 52.
Piant perennial. Caudex very short, round, about the
thickness of a writing quill, and from 2 to 3 inches hio-h -
clothed with soft spreading hairs. Scape from afoot and a
half to 3 feet high, erect, branched, cylindrical, green, the
base densdy pilose, becoming glabrous and shining towards
the top. Brarwhes slightly angular, shining, from a span to
a toot long Le y e s lyrate, pale green, thickly clothed with
soft hairs from 3 to 7 mches long, wrinkled above, paler and
varicose beneath the segments opposite, rounded, sinuately
lobed and toothed, wavy and curled, with the base abruntlv
cordate, the terminal one large, cordate-oblong, obtuse, sinuately
lobed, waved, cucullate at the base, with the posterior
lobes connivent. Footstalks very short, winged, a little
decurrent at the base, with a stout midrib, which is broader
at the base, flat above, and convex beneath. Flowers in ¡
spiciform raceme, erect, smaller than those of the other spe
cies, whke or occasionally having a faint tinge of rose
colour. Pedicels very short, smooth, slightly angular. Brac-
linear acute, longer than the pedicels, and sometimes
slightly fringed. Calyx smooth and shining, four, or rarely
five cleft, the segments ovate, acute, or acuminate, faintly
3-nerved. Petals 4, or rarely .5, twice the length of the ca-
lyx, obovate, obtuse, bluntly keeled, with a stout midrib
with branching veins, the claw very short and folded. Sta