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ANTHOCERCIS littorea. 
Fellow Anthocercis. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. Sotanem. Jussieu gen. 124. 
Ѕоглхеж, Brown prod. 443. Sect. II. Corolla non pli. 
Cata, regularis. Stam. didynama. Embryo levitér arcuatus, Pericarpium 
capsulare у, baccatum. 
ANTHOCERCIS. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. campanulata, tubo basi coe 
arctatá, staminiferá; limbo 5-partito, quali. Siam. inclusa, cum rudi- 
mento quinti. Stig. capitato-emarginatum. Caps. 2-loc., 2-valv., valvarum 
marginibus inflexis, placente parallela insertis. Sem: reticulata. Frutices 
Blabriusculi. Fol. alterna, petiolo basive аНетийй cum ramo articulata, 
crassa, nunc glanduloso-punctata, Flores axillares, subsolitarii, pedunculo 
minut? bracteato, ad articulum sepiüs solubili. Cor. alba v. flava, speciosa, 
tubo intàs striato, limbo guandóque 6-8-partito. Brown 1. c. 448. 
A. littorea, foliis obovatis impunctatis margine levibus utrinque ramulisque 
glaberrimis, corolle laciniis tubo longioribus, capsula oblonga calycem 
bis superante. Brown іл Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 53. 
Anthocercis littorea, Табаға. nov. holl. 2. 19. t. 158. ‚ Brown prod. 448, 
Frutex orgyalis, ramulis erectis subangulatis. Folia integerrima aut den- 
tata. Flores axillares terminalesque solitarii aut in racemis paucifloris, pedun- 
culo communi breviori pedicellis suprà eundem articulatis ad summum incras- 
satis, nonnunguàm ejusdem pedunculi communis apice congestis umbellam 
simulantibus, singulis sub basi stipatis bracteis 3-4, squamulisque caducis 
acutis, Cal. semiófidas, erectus, laciniis acútis. Cor. sulphurea, tubo intús 
Purpureo-lineato, wiz duplo longiore calyce, limbo patente, laciniis lanceolatis, 
«qualibus, tubo longioribus. Stam, tubo inclusa, basin wersüs inserta; fil. 
infra latiusculis villosis: anth. 2-loc., ovatis. Germ. superum: stylus teres : 
stig. subcapitatum. Caps, ovato-oblonga, suprà attenuata; sem. plurima 
reniformia, scrobiculata, centrali affixa veceptaculo, adnato utrinque valvula- 
rum marginibus introflexis, planis, cum eodem dissepimentum constituentibus, 
Labillardiére loc. cit. 
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An extremely rare plant in our collections, which 
we have been enabled to publish from a specimen that 
flowered in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy, Hammersmith, in May last. А native of Lewin's 
Land, on the south-west coast of New Holland, whence it 
was first introduced by Mr. Р. Good in 1803. 
The representation of this species in M. Labillarditre’s 
work is from a dried subject. It is mentioned as a shrub, 
growing to the height of five or six feet, with upright some- 
what cornered smooth branches. Leaves loosely scattered, 
