(seq. 89)

Tetrandria monogynia

Flowers small cruciform, sessile each furnished
with a small acuminate deciduous bractea.
Spike crowded from 5 to 10 inches long. A luxu-
riant plant may bear three spikes. The bloom
commences at the bottom of the spike.

Calyx petaloid, deeply 4 divided : divisions equal
oval terminating each in a dry black point.
The calyx is at first very white but soon becomes
greenish even before the shriveling of the pis-
till & anthers. Calyx remains shrivelled &
attached to the mature seed vessel.

Corolla non unless you choose to call the ca-
=lyx so. —

Stamina invariably 4. Filaments white 5 or 6
times the length of the calyx, clavate,
flattened above, minutely filiform at their
insertion which is at the bottom of the calyx
*nearly* or quite in contact with the style. *Anthers si=
=tuated at the top of the filaments (as in Yucca.
— see the specimens) Stamina soon drop.
*anthera biloeulares

Pistillum. Germen inferior tetragonal.
Style not more than 1/3 of the length of the fila
=ments. Stigma large, globose. Pistill white,
shrivels & falls a little before the stamina!