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XYLOPHYLLA LATIFOLIA. Broap-Leavep 
XYLOPHYLLA, _ : 
Clafs and Order. 
Monccia MonaDELPHIA. 
Generic Charader. 
Masc. Cal. 6-partitus. Cor.o. Neé. glandule 6, globofe. 
Fam. Cal. et Neé, ut in mafcula. Germ. fuperum. Styli 3. 
Stigmata 3-partita. Cap/. 3-locularis. Sem. 2, in fingulis lo- 
culamentis, Genus Phyllantho nimis affine. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
XYLOPHYLLA Jatifolia ; foliis rhombeis crenatis crenis ap- 
roximatis floriferis. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 376. 
XYLOPHYLLA Jatifolia. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1500. Swartz 
Prod. 28. Obf. 113. Linn. Mant. 281. | 
Gert. Fru. 2. p. 123. 1.108. f. 3. 
GENISIPHYLLA a/plenifolia. L’Herit. Sert. Ang. 29. t. 39. 
PHYLLANTHUS foliis latioribus utrinque acuminatis apicem 
verfus crenatis. Browne Fam. 188. 
HEMIONOTIDI affinis epiphyllanthos. Pluk. Phyt. t. 36. 
Ff: 7 
LONCHITIDI affinis arbor anomala folio alato et pinnarum 
. crenis fruétifero. Sloane Cal. p.16. fil. 
80. 
Penns 
Linnzus, who took up this genus on the authority of — 
Browne, referred it to his fifth clafs, but that it fhould have 
_ been continued there by Witipenow after he had feen the 
_ obfervations of Swartz, is nota little furprifing. It feems 
hardly to be a diftin@ genus from Payiiantuus. The female 
* flowers ftand on much longer footftalks than the male. 
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