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Dopon#a atrenvata (Mas.).| ATTENUATED 
LEAVED, Dopon#&a. 
“Class and Order. - 
Ocranpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Sapipacez. ) 
- Generic Character. 
Flores sepe abortu polygami aut dioici. Cal..4-parti- 
tus, deciduus. Pet. 9. Stam. 8, filamentis brevissimis, 
antheris oblengis linearibusve. Stylus filiformis ab. alis 
capsule distinctus, apice subtrifidus. Capsula 2—3 valvis, 
2—3-loc. 2—3-alata, angulo centrali 2—3-angulato in faci- 
ebus seminifero. _Semina bina subglobosa. Frutices foliis 
oblongis sepius viscosis. DC. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Dopon#a* attenuata; foliis lineari-spathulatis basi atten- 
uatis subverrucosis rigidis, marginibus subrevolutis 
dentatis, floribus dioicis, racemis terminalibus axilla- 
ribusque, calycibus demum reflexis viscidis. Graham. 
Doponza attenuata. Cunningham in Field’s New South 
Wales, p. 353.. ¢ : 
Descr. Shrub erect ; stem round, with brown, cracked 
bark ; branches scattered, slightly compressed. Leaves 
scattered, sessile (three inches long, one quarter of an inch 
_ broad), spreading, linear-spathulate, with a small mucro at 
the apex, which is not always distinct ; much attenuated 
at the base, rigid, rough, with minute ,warty elevations Re 
a ae the 
* After Dopoens or Dovonzvus, a learned Belgian Botanist and Physician, 
who flourished in the sixteenth century. 
