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_ PHYSIANTHUS ALBENs, WHITISH-LEAVED 
PuHysIANTHUs. 
KEE EERE EEE EEK RR 
Class and Order. 
Penranpria Dieynra. 
( Nat. Ord.—AscteprapEx. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cor. campanulata, tubo inflato-ventricoso, limbo 5-fido 
connivente. Columna fructificationis inclusa pentaphylla, 
_ foliolis tubo stamineo insertis, deinde corolle adnatis, 
Sursum liberis cucullatis. Anthere membrana terminate. 
Pollinis masse decem, cereacee, compresso - clavate, in 
_ cruribus retinaculi deflexis pendula. Stigma biapiculatum. 
Semina comosa. Martius. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Puystanruus * albens ; herbacea, volubilis, foliis oppositis 
integerrimis acutis basi cordato-truncatis subtus albo- 
pruinosis, floribus subdichotomo-cymosis. Martius. 
Puystanruus albens. Mart. Nov. Genera et Sp. Plant. Bra- 
stil. v. 1. 54.-t. 32. Graham, in Ed. New Phil. Journ. 
Oct. 1832. Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur. post. p. 112. 
Descr. Root woody, branched, and fibrous. Stem woody, 
(at least when cultivated in the stove,) round, branched, 
twining ; bark green, cracked, and on the recent shoots, 
Which are very long and slender, pretty densely covered 
with short, adpressed pubescence. Branches opposite and 
axillary, spreading. Leaves (three inches long, an inch 
and three quarters broad,) petioled, opposite, oblong, trun- _ 
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* puocs, a bladder, and aibos, a flower, from the inflated corolla... 
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