with a simple wing at the end of each, like those we see on 
the common Maple, : et 
Fucata forms an upright branching smooth shrub, not 
exceeding З or 4 feet in the specimens we have seen. 
Leaves hi inches long or more, elliptic, acute, bristled be- 
neath with decumbent brittle stinging double-pointed 
prickles fastened at the middle, as in other species of the . 
genus, above nearly free from this armature. Peduncles 
opposite, axillary, umbellately corymbose, ‚very short: pe- 
dicles many, an inch or two in length, one-flowered, 
by bractes, substantial, round, somewhat thickened to. 
wards the flower, with a "double-scaled knee or joint, a little 
above the base. Calyr small, green, segments ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, concave, fitted to the germen, each with a two- 
prominent elliptic twin caruncle nearly equal to itself 
at the back. Corolla irregular, rotate, fleshy, brittle, of a 
whitish pink colour: petals spatulate, distant, with a nar 
row unguis and broad lamina; three upper ones 
ja or unevenly indented, the middle of the three rather 
the largest hastately orbicular and more markedly cut at. 
the edge; two lowest hastately ovate, entire. Stamens the 
length of the ungues of the petals, monadelphous below the 
middle, distinct and conniyent above: anthers oblong yel- 
low, inserted by their base at the point of a short sub: 
filament, bursting inwards, the two cells growing to the flat 
introverted front of the thick oblong receptacle with 8 
keeled back. Germen shining, ovate-oblong, rounded. 
trigonal, with three filiform scarcely shorter continyous, 
styles; each having a blunted point for stigma. 
The corolla, when closed, reminds us of that of the 
well-known Kasia lati folia i in the same state, 
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а Тһе calyx when the corolla is removed. $ The stamens. с The рәш; 
4 An unripe drupe with the three persistent styles. e A transverse section 
of the same, showing the three imperfect nute or stones. . 
