Richard Salisbury

“ I shall probably be laughed at, for affixing any value to this last character, and still more so for thinking that whole genera and orders of vegetables have been hurled away from the surface of our globe along with the strata upon which they grew, in that convulsion called the deluge; but I have no doubt that future generations will make discoveries to strengthen this conjecture, and that in studying the affinities of vegetables, their geographical connexion may be frequently inquired into with advantage. ”

“ Torus or receptacle yellow, projecting into 3 melliferous lobes to which the corolla adheres. Pericarpium before impregnation yellowish green, not so long as the tube, 3-angular with rudiments of 3 intermediate angles, 3-locular, smooth. Style yellowish green, reaching to about the bottom of the anthers, erect, triangular, smooth. Stigma yellow, large in proportion to the style, somewhat funnel-shaped, divided into 3 thick recurved wedge-shaped lobes furrowed on their upper side. ”

“ Filaments 6, inserted in the orifice of the tube, decurrent, yellowish green with white edges, erect, quite smooth; those 3 which are opposite to the inner divisions of the limb wedge-shaped and bearing anthers; the other 3 considerably larger, elliptic-wedge-shaped, hollow, barren. Anthers yellow with paler edges, 3 lines long, inserted at the base where they are 2-fid, quite erect, broad-linear, deeply emarginated at the top, 2-locular, 4-valved, splitting rather towards the inside. ”