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plant to A. quaterna, after having in the text of the Prodromus 
well alluded to the evidently close affinity of Thonning’s plant 
to the 4. Coromandeliana. In the A. scandens, not only is 
the general size of the plant and of the leaves very different 
from those described by Thonning, but the inflorescence and 
flowers at once preclude the possibility of uniting them. Schu- 
macher moreover expressly states that the R, quaterna only 
differs from R. intrusa, Vahl., (another species scarcely dis- 
tinguishable from 4. Coromandeliana), by the number of 
bracts. With regard to the genus, our plant cannot be sepa- 
tated from Asystasia ; to which Lindley himself would probably 
have referred it, had the volume of the Prodromus been then 
published, 
5. Asystasia Vogeliana, Benth.; glabra, foliis ovatis ellipticisve 
acuminatis basi angustatis breviter petiolatis, racemis termi- 
nalibus subramosis glabriusculis, floribus unilateralibus soli- 
tariis pedicellatis.— Fernando Po, Vogel. 
Caulis herbaceus, erectus, subsimplex v. parce ramosus, pluri- 
pedalis, ima basi frutescens. Folia semipedalia, supra niti- 
dula, longe acuminata. Inflorescentia fere A. Coromande- 
liane, pedicellis tamen sublongioribus. Calyces- paullo mi- 
nores, laciniis angustis. Corolla tenuis, omnino apertam non 
vidi, sed alabastrum adest jam 14 poll. longum. Anthere 
oblongæ, loculis parallelis basi vix callosis, uno paullo altius 
Mserto. 
* Paulo-Wilhelmia polysperma, Benth.; caule glabriusculo, 
foliis ovatis acuminatis eroso-dentatis basi cuneatis villosis, 
Capsulis 8-10.spermis.—On the Sugarloaf Mountain, Sierra 
ne, Don, 
Rami lignosi. Folia 2-4-polliearia, longe petiolata, rugosa, 
venis primariis a costa media angula valde acuta divergenti- 
bus, seeundariis transversis crebris. Cyme subsessiles, bi- 
fid: v, dichotom:e, in thyrsum terminalem dispositze. Calycis 
lacinize 5, æquales, lineares, sieeze, glanduloso-puberule, per 
anthesin 5 lin., in fructu 7 lin. longe. Corolle tubus tenuis 
9-10 lin. longus; limbus tubo brevior late expansus 5- 
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