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BREXIA madagascaricnsis. 



Madagascar Breaia. 



I'ENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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'Nnf. ord, PoLYPETAL^ Hypogyn^. Incert^e sedis. Aubert da Petit 



Thouars gen. nov> viadagasc, 20. in Milanges de hot, ei de 

 voy\ 



GuTTiFER^ ? Jussieii gen. 255. 

 BREXIA. Cat. 1-pliylIus, o-fidus, persistcns, Cor^. petala 6 rotiin- 

 data^ caduca, Filamenta 5 basi in iirceolo connata, intervalla iimbriata : 

 mithercB apici inserta; intim^ dehiscentes. Germ, conicum; stylus brevis; 



stigma crassuiu. Bacca oblonga, quinquangularis, cortice lignoso firmo: 

 loculi cjuinque. Scmina numerosa, liino ordine centre affixa; embryo rectus. 

 Colyledones heniispha^rica? in albuminc cariioso. 



Arbvscula: folia altcrna, juniora longissima spinoso-dentata, adulta 

 ovato-ohlonga subdenfata firma; iimbellce axillares, l-Q-Jlorce: pedvnculo 

 communi compresso. Aubert dii Petit Thouars loc. cit. 



Broxia. Aubert dii Petit Thouars loc. cit. 

 Venana niadagascaricnsis. Lam. encyc.pn 



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We are obliged to Mr. Brown for pointing out to us the 

 record of this rare and curious plant ; the dra\ying of 

 which was taken from the collection at Bayswater^ belong- 

 ing to the Comtesse des Vandes. Native of Madagascar. 



Calyx of one piece^ 5- cleft, permanent. Petals 5, round- 

 ed caducous. Filaments united at the base, so as to form a 

 kind of basin or urceolus, fringed in the intervals : anthers 

 placed at the top, bursting inwards. Germen conical; 

 style short ; stigma thick. Berry with a solid woody 

 rind, oblong, pentagonal, with 5 cells. Seeds numerous, 

 attached in a triple row to the centre: embryo straight. 

 Cotyledons hemispherical^ imbedded in a fleshy albumen. A 

 tree-like shrub ; leaves alternate, when young very long, 

 prickly toothed, Jull grown ones ovately oblong, obsoletely 

 toothed, more substantial; umbels axillary, 7-8-flowered ; 

 common peduncle compressed. . . 



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A species not in the Hortus Kewensis, nor in any 

 general system of vegetables ; and probably now introduced 

 by the above-named ladv. 



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