A. platyptera appears to have first blossomed with Messrs. 
Lucomgs & Pince of Exeter; and since also with Messrs. 
Low of Clapton, as well as at Oakfield and Edinburgh ; so 
that it may be considered a peculiarly free flowerer, and a 
most desirable greenhouse autumnal blossoming plant. 
Descr. Stems, in reality, slender and almost filiform, 
throwing out spreading, alternate branches, which, as well 
as the stem, are all winged with comparatively broad, flat- 
tened, green expansions, rather thickly hairy, and marked 
with obscure, oblique nerves in the older portions. Phyl- 
lodia scarcely an inch long, and gradually smaller upwards. 
These are so completely decurrent into the wings as to 
represent only large, oblique teeth, with a sharp, recurved 
mucro, and a nerve passing obliquely from the base to the 
apex. Stipules small, subulate, deciduous. The copious 
younger branches are clothed at short distances with deep 
yellow, pedunculated, globose heads of flowers. Peduncle 
about as long as the head of flowers, always arising from 
the axil of a phyllodium. Each minute flower has an 
ovate, ciliated bractea at the base. Calyx deeply five-cleft, 
ciliated. Corolla campanulate, deeply five-cleft. Stamens 
very numerous. Ovary oblong, glab : Style long, 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil:—magnified. 
