of the Natural Order of Myth. 265 



(lamina to the other fpecics. If the capfules thould be found to 

 have 3 or 4 cells, I fhould incline to reckon it a decandrous fccrJor, 

 with which genus its oppofite leaves, as well as the fize and ap- 

 pearance of the flowers, agree ; whereas every Leptofpermum that J 

 know of, has alternate leaves. It mull be left for future con fi- 

 de ration. 



4. FABRICIA. Gartn. Sent. /. 35. 

 Icosandria Monogytiia, after Leptofpermum. 



Char. Gen. Calyx 5-fidus, femifuperus. Vetala 5, feflilia. 

 Stigma capitatum. CapfuJa multilocularis. Senilna alata. 



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Goertner enumerates two fpecies of Fabricia, of which I have re- 

 ceived only one, his laevigata, from New South Wales, which is 

 alfo plentiful in the gardens about London, but has never yet 

 flowered. Neither have my fpecimens any flowers, though they 

 abound with fertile axillary capfules, fome of which have the ftyfe 

 upon them. The petals being feffile (without ungues J is the only 

 part of the generic character which I have borrowed fromGsertner. 

 The numerous cells of the fruit, from 8 to 10, and efpecially the 

 winged feeds, fufficiently diftinguiih this genus from Leptofpermum^ 

 to which it is next akin. 



The leaves of F. laevigata are alternate, obovate, fmooth, very 

 obfeureiy 3 or 5 -nerved, of a light glaucous green. The teeth of 

 the calyx are of a triangular figure, whereas in F. myrlifoha they 

 are nearly orbicular. This 1 aft-mentioned fpecies is alio twice as 



large as the other in all its parts. 



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