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OMALANTHUS POPULIFOLIA. PopLAR-LEAVED 
OMALANTHUS. 
Class and Order. 
Monezora MonapDELpuia. 
( Nat. 1 a ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores racemosi, inferiores feeminei. _ ‘ 
Masc. Perianthium bilobum. Stamina 3—6, basi mo- 
nadelpha. | 
Fam. Pendens. Perianthium in mare. Stylus bipar- | 
titus. Capsula ovalis, bivalvis, bilocularis, loculis mono- 
spermis. _ Semen pendens arillo pulposo tectum. 
Specific Name : 0 Synonyms. neg 
Omaxantuus populifolia. Graham in Jameson’s New Ed. 
Journ. of Science, 1827, p. 175. 
Omaxantuus leschenaultianus? Juss. (Adr.) Tent. de Euph. 
t. 16. f. 53. (sine ult. descr.) f 
~Descr. A shrub (or probably in its native climate, a 
_ tree) having attained the height of ten or twelve feet in the — 
stove of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, much branched ; 
the older branches covered with a glabrous greyish bar! 
the younger ones reddish, glabrous, as is every part of the 
plant. Leaves alternate, on long, red, filiform, slender 
stalks, which have a gland at their extremity on the uppe 
side; at first enclosed within two lanceolate, greenish sti-_ 
pules, which soon fall away, rhombeo-ovate, somewhat 
acuminate, quite entire at the margin, and there often 
bordered with red, especially at the base; image, and just. 
before their fall, they turn of a fine orange red, the under 
- side much paler, nerves parallel, transversely oblique, often 
reddish; on the underside reticulated with ital ler_ones. 
Racemes terminal, from two to four inches long. Female 
flowers (four or five) occupying the lower part, solitary, 
pendant, having a broad green bractea at the base, with a 
gland on each side. Pedicel curved downwards, so ae 
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