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Dorsrenia arironia. ARuM-LEAvED Dor- 
STENIA. 
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Ss seedele Monoeyni. 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum commune monophyllum, carnosum, dila- 
_latum, patens, orbiculare aut angulatum, in quo semina 
Wlitaria nidulantur. Stam. 1—5. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Dorstensa arifolia ; foliis cordato-sagittatis undulatim-cre- - 
natis demum lobatis, receptaculis suborbiculatis. 
RSTENIA a@rifolia ; scapis radicatis, foliis cordato-sagit- 
tatis undulatis subdentatis maximis, receptaculis ova- 
libus. Lam. Encycl. 2. p. 317.—Illustr. t. 83. f. 2. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p.682. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 557. 
Dorstenia arifolia. Hooker Exotic. Bot. v. 1. t. 6. 
‘een : 
Dorsrenta arifolia was first discovered by M. Domsey, 
lee in shady places in Brazil, and described and 
oe by Lamarck ; with his description and figure, both 
dar from dried specimens, our plant so nearly agrees, 
t we apprehend it must belong to the same species. 
‘MARcK describes the leaves without the foo , as 
Ng ten inches long and three and a half wide, and the 
ceptacles as oval, which in our plant are nearly orbi- 
“ular, or approaching to square with very rounded angles. 
€ time our plant was in flower the leaves were entire 
‘te divided into lobes as in Mr. Hooxer’s figure, in which 
its aspect is so different from our representation that 
*s in the drawing, but afterwards it produced some that _ 
Weg pat ee be mistaken for two distinct species; but — 
“are informed, in the Exotic Flora, that according to 
Mr. SHEPHERD, 
