makes the buds appear tipped with black. The alternaté 
leaves, however, with their arti¢iilated petioles, and remarkable 
ftipulation, confirm the idea ofa diftin@ genus. The-two ftipules, 
which are very finall, conical,. hairy, and ere@, grow from thé 
edge of a cuplike projeGtion, which receives the bafe of the 
petiole, and from which 4 tapering line is continued down ‘the 
fiem nearly to the infertion of the next leaf. Upon the whole, 
there is a very near affinity between Bofliza and Platylobium, 
and as, even in an artificial arrangement when the fyftem -will 
admit of it, fuch plants fhould ftand together, WitLpENOW 
ought not to have feparated them to fuch a diftance as he has. 
VENTENAT gave this {pecies the name of heterophyllum, 
becaufe he obferved the leaves to be elliptical at the lower 
parts of the fhrub and lanceolate upwards: a diftinGlion we 
have not remarked in the {pecimens we have examined. In 
the PLaryLogium ova/um of the Botanifts Repofitory, which 
certainly belongs to this genus and has been referred to it by 
Mr. Drayanover, the leaves are all elliptical. Upon thefe 
accounts we have rather adopted ANprews’s name of /anceo: 
latum, to which we have been further impelled by a difficulty 
we find in deciding abfolutely to which of thefe plants Vex-_ 
TENAT'S figure and defcription belongs. Perhaps the /axceo- 
latum and ovatum of the Botanift’s Repofitesy are mere va- 
tieties of the fame fpecies, in which cafe Vientenar’s name 
% seg ar.) 
may be retained for the fpecies. 
_ We fufpeé that our Pratytosium microphyllum (No. 863) 
-as well as P. /colopendrum, and fome other undefcribed 
fpecies, belong to this genus. — 
Native of New-Holland ; propagated, we belicve, by feeds” 
only ; requires the prote@ion of a greenhoufe ; flowers almolt 
all the year. Our drawing was taken at Mr, Hispert’s, at 
Chriftmas. Introduced in 1792, according to the Botanift’s 
Repofitory, by Meffrs, Lex and Kennepy. — 
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