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ABROMA augusta. 
I Smooth-stalked Abroma. 
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POLYADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MALVACER. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. V. Stamina basi in 
urceolum sessilem connata, sterilia fertilibus intermixta, definita aut rariüs 
indefinita. 
ABROMA. Cal. 5-partitus persistens. Pet. basi fornicata (nectarium 
Linn. suppl.) apice 10-fidum, laciniis 5 brevibus 3-fidis 3-antheriferis, 3-al- 
ternis sterilibus erectis linearibus apice recurvato-fornicatis. Styli 5 approxi- 
mati; stig. 5. Caps. oblonga truncata mucronata, 5-alata, 5-locularis, 
suprà dehiscens, polysperma; sem. numerosa (nigra scabra ovato-globosa ) 
receptaculis barbatis utrinque adharentia, incompletè arillatà. Frutex, 
flores (THEOBROME) axillares (rectiùs oppositifolii) ; fructus Hısıscı. 
Juss. l. c. 276. 
A. augusta, ramis tomentosis levibus, foliis adultis subtüs pube simplicis- 
sima, capsula alis apice truncatis: angulo exteriore acutiusculo. Brown 
in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 409. 
Abroma augusta. Linn. suppl. 341. Willd. sp. pl. 8. 1424. 
‘Abroma augustum. Salisb. parad. lond. 102; absque icone. 
Abroma Wheleri. Retz. obs. bot. 5. 27. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1425. 
Abroma fastuosum. Jacq. hort. vindob. 3. 3. t. 1; (non aliorum ). 
Ambroma angulata. Lamarck encyc. 1. 126. 
Theobroma augusta. Linn. syst. nat. ed. 13. 233. J. Miller illustr. cum tab. 
Gossipium demonis. Rumph. amboin. 4. t. 14; (monente D. Roxburgh). — 
(Arborescens, subl2pedalis): caules plures, lignosi, medullosi, erecti, 
eylindracei, superné foliosi. Fol. alterna, magna, basi cordata, subpalmato- 
lobata, angulosa, remote dentata, mollia, virentia, subtus pubescentia, 
petiolis longis; inferiora angulis 5-7 profundis nervisque totidem primariis, 
superiora minora angulis sepiüs quinque supernis, ad basin bilobato-rotun- 
data. Panicule breves ramulorum, superiorum in axillis positorum caulisque 
terminales, floribus brunneo-purpurascentibus: bracteze 2 anguste acuminate 
ad basin pedunculi communis panicularum, alie 4 involucrorum instar ad 
bases divisionum. Lamarck loc. cit. (ex gallico versum.) 
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Aroma was formerly included in the same genus with 
the Chocolate-Tree (TugoBRowA Cacao) ; but has been since 
detached, and we believe consists as yet of only two re- 
corded species, the subject of this article and fastuosum, 
the latter found in New South Wales and the Moluccas, 
and distinguished by the long prickly stalks and elongated 
taper-pointed angles of the summit of the capsule; in augus- 
tum the stalks are smooth and the top-corners of the capsule 
short-pointed. 
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