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DoRSTENIA CERATOSANTHES. Crerr Dor- 
STENIA. 
KEKE EEE EE EEE EEEEEREKE 
Class and Order. 
Monececta DiAnpRia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Urrticez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum carnosum dilatatum, patens, superne papil- 
losum vel squamosum: papillis vel squamis intus florigeris. 
Cal.o. Cor.o. Stam. 2. Pistillum receptaculo immer- 
sum: Stylus bifidus, lateralis. Pericarpia monosperma. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Dorsrensa ceratosanthes ; acaulis, foliis oblongo-cordatis 
subserratis reticulato-venosis scabridis, receptaculo bi- 
partito, laciniis lineari-acuminatis margine laciniatis. 
Dorsrenia ceratosanthes. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1216. 
Descr. I am unacquainted with the root of this plant, 
from the top or crown of which the leaves are said immedi- 
ately spring : these are elevated upon a footstalk, about six 
to eight inches long, oblong, or ovato-oblong, acuminated, 
the margin obscurely serrated, the base cordate, the surface 
marked with numerous reticulated veins, which contract 
the substance of the leaf so as to make it blistery on the 
upper surface, every where rough to the touch, but with 
Points so minute, that they are scarcely visible with a 
common lens: the colour is very dark green on the upper 
ce, much paler beneath, where the nerves are very 
rominent. Receptacles upon a scape, shorter than the 
eafstalk, and compressed upwards, two or three inches 
long, rounded at the base, cleft from the top almost to the 
bottom, into two linear-acuminated segments, plane above, 
keeled beneath, and there furnished with a midrib, the 
margin papillose, and beneath the papilla are —— 
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