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* DIPLOPELTIS Hugelii. 
Baron Hugel's Diplopeltis. 
POLYGAMIA MON(ECIA. 
Nat. ord. SAPINDACEX. 
DIPLOPELTIS. Flores polygamo-moneci. Sepala 5, estivatione im- 
bricata. Petala 4, versus latus superius floris flexa, «eestivatione imbricata. 
Discus dimidiatus, posticus, carnosus, truncatus, denticulatus, declivis. Stamina 
seepius 8, hypogyna, ascendentia, in floribus foemineis sterilia nana. Ovarium 
superum, 2-3-loculare, inflatum; ovula cuique loculo duo, funiculis propriis 
elongatis ascendentia; stylus tortilis, simplex. (Capsula 3-locularis, 3-parti- 
bilis, loculis monospermis; semina e funiculo longiusculo in arillum minimum 
expanso erecta. Embryo exalbuminosus, curvatus: cotyledones spiraliter convo- 
lutze, Endl.) 
D. Hugelii ; cinerea, pilosa, ramis teretibus, foliis cuneatis obtusis grossé den- 
tatis basi nunc pinnatifidis, paniculá terminali glandulosá, capsulá obcor- 
datà cinereà glandulosá apterá. 
A short notice of this very pretty plant has already been 
given at No. 70 of the miscellaneous matter of the present 
volume. For its introduction we are indebted to Mr. An- 
drew Toward, gardener to H. R. H. the Duchess of Glou- 
cester ; who obtained its seeds from the Swan River, where, 
according to Baron Hugel, it is found about the town of 
Freemantle; it had been previously raised at Vienna in 
that noble traveller's garden. 
It proves to be a hardy greenhouse shrub, growing about 
3 feet high, and flowering in April and May. It requires 
the same treatment as such Cape plants as Hebenstreitias, 
striking freely from cuttings of the young wood, and will 
bear to be planted out in the open border in summer. 
What gives this plant a very great interest, quite inde- 
pendent of its pretty appearance, is the difficulty of deter- 
mining in a satisfactory manner its natural affinities. It is 
one of those anomalous forms which stand intermediate as it 
* From d¿erdoc double, and zeArn a buckler; but the application of the name 
does not occur to me. 
