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PLAGIANTHUS DIvVARICATUS. SPREADING 
PLAGIANTHUS. 
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Class and Order. 
Monapepuia Decanpris. 
( Nat. Ord.—Evupnorgiacez ? Bompacen. DC. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx subhemisphericus, 5-den- 
tatus. Pet. 5, ovalia, basi cum tubo staminum unita. 
Stam. 10—12: filamenta in tubum cylindraceum unitum. 
Pistillum solitarium. Germen ovatum uni- bi-ovulatum, 
ovulis suspensis. Stylus crassiusculus. Stigma magnum, 
bilobum, hine decurrens, papillosum. Capsula subdru- 
pacea, mono-dicocca, apiculata, indehiscens ? Cocculi mo- 
nospermi. Semen pendens. Albumen carnosum. Embryo 
immersus curvatus: Radicula cylindracea ad hilum semi- 
nis versa: Cotyledones majuscule, plane, subfoliacex, lon- 
gitudinaliter undulate.—Frutex parvus, virgatus. Folia 
linearia, fasciculata, 3-nervia. Flores subsolitarii, parvi, 
brevi-pedunculati, flavescentes. ; 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
Pracianruus * divaricatus. 3 : : 
PLaciantruus divaricatus. Forst. Gen. t. 43. De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 1.477. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 81. 
Descr. A twiggy shrub, with dark brown and roughish 
bark and leaves, which latter are fascicled, small, linear, ge- 
nerally broader upwards, obtuse, quite entire and glabrous, 
with a central rib, and two lateral, wavy nerves, showing 
: some 
* From waayios, oblique, and arbor, a flower, from an obliquity or irregu- 
larity of the petals, a peculiarity not observable in the present specimens. 
