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HETEROPTERIS nitida; war. /3. 
Shining' JEteteropteris, with brown leaves. 
DECANDRIA TRIOYNIA. 
Ala^, ortZ. Malpighiacex. Trib. 111. Banisteiie«! D. C. 
HETEROPTERIS, Kunth. Omnia Banisteriae, seel styli minus apice 
dilatati, et Carpellorum alse deorsiim (ut in Acefe) nec Bupern^ incrassate. 
Dec.jprodr. 
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H. nit/da; foliis ellipticis acuniiiiatis siipenie subsmuat)^r*upril nitidis, 
petiolis cglandulosis, panicula terniinali foliosa. 
« ; nrgcntea, foliis subtus arfjeiiteis. 
Banisteria nitida. Lamarck encyd. 1.364. Car. diss. !>■ p. 422. /. 244. 
Willd. sp. pi. 2.740. 
H. nitida. Kunth. in H. et B. riov-aen. et. sp. pi. 6.163. Dec. prodr. 
1.592. ^ 
fi; aurea, foliis subtils aureis. 
Rami teretes^ corrugaii, verrucis crebris parvis albis scabri. Folia cllip- 
tica, utrinqve acuta, viargine subsimuitaf st^rd glabra, infrd tomento auTeo 
sericea. Petioli h-teretes eglandulosi. Corymbi tefminales et axiUaretf 
pedunculati, foliosi, paniculati, tomento rufo velutiniiiramuUs compressis. 
Flores lutei, speciosi. Calyx 5-partitui; Jbliolo ^Wf^l^ ban btglanduhso. 
Stamina fip^l^y Stj^tres, teinas»t glabri. ^7 
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•For this plant we are indebted to Mr. John Lee, of the 
Hammersmith Nursery, where our drawing was made in 
July 1825. A tender stove shrub, native of the Brazils, 
and a beautiful ornament to a collection, for the sai:e 
both of its foliage and flowers. 
We do not find that it differs from the Banisteria nitida of 
Cavanilles in any other respect than in the colour of the under 
surface of the leaves, which is stated to be silvery in tliat 
plant, but which is of a bright golden-brown in this. Their 
inflorescence h alfte, the outline of their leaves, especially 
in the sinuate marijin. jierfectly agrees, and they are both 
distinguished from Heteropteris chrysophylla by the absence 
