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CHEIRANTHRODENDRON, Larreat. Sepala coriaceo-petaloidea, dorso carinata, suberecta. Andrœcium obliquum, hine altius fissum: antheræ declinatæ, incurvæ, digitiformes, validæ, ultra loculos longo-lineares in acumen subulatum productæ. Semen ad chalazam appendice granulate instructa. Sectio transversa cotyledonum S-formis. — Chiranthodendron, Larreataqui (1795*), Baillon. Cheirostemon, Humb. & Bonpl. 1808. — The much older name, which Baillon has restored and which we cannot properly refuse to adopt, is well formed, being the Greek of the native name of the Hand-flower Tree. Humboldt and Bonpland deliberately superseded it, merely because they thought they could make a better and shorter name. It is only in the latter respect that they were successful.

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