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ANTHOCERCIS viscosa. GLUTINOUS 
ANTHOCERCIS. 
EKER KE KEKE KK EK 
Class and Order. 
DipynamiA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord —Soxtanez. Sect. II. Br.) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. campanulata, tubo basi coarctata 
staminifera ; limbo 5-partito, equali. Stamina inclusa, 
didynama, cum rudimento 5-ti. Stigma capitato-emargi- 
natum. Caps. bilocularis, bivalvis, valvarum marginibus 
inflexis, placente parallela insertis. Semina reticulata. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
AnTHOcERcIs * viscosa ; foliis obovatis glanduloso-puncta- 
tis margine scabriusculis, novellis ramulisque tenuis- 
sime pubescentibus, capsula ovata calycem sube- 
quante. Br. | 
Anruocercis viscosa. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 448. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 2. p. 841. 
Gites 
Descr. Apparently a low shrub, with alternate, obovate, 
somewhat fleshy leaves, obtuse or even retuse at the extre- 
mity, at the base attenuated, but not petioled, the margin 
scabrous, though not visibly so to the naked eye, the surface 
both above and beneath punctated with glandular, brown 
dots. Peduncles axillary, solitary, single-flowered, having 
two or three linear or linear-lanceolate, green, bractee ; 
these peduncles become considerably elongated when bear- 
ing 
re. 
* From asbos, @ flower, and xspes, a ray, in allusion to the radiated limb 
of the Corolla. 
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