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LORANTHACE &. 
Atkinsonia. 
Flores bisexuales, tribracteolati, breviter racemosi. Calyx 
iruncato- v. campanulato-ovatus, minutim denticulatus. Petala 
6-8, libera, linearia. Stamina tot quot petala, supra eorum basim 
inserta. Antherz oblongo-lineares, dorsifixze, biloculat,, loculis 
rima longitudinali dehiscentibus. Stylus subulatus. Stigma per- 
minutum. Jrupa ovata, aptera, monosperma.  Putamen crus- 
taceum, profunde 8-sulcatum. — Albumen amygdalinum, longitu- 
dinaliter 8-lobatum. | Embryo in axi albuminis situs, solitarius, 
cylindraceus, rectus. Cotyledones fere radicule sequilonges. 
Frutex epigeus Australi: orientalis, foliis oppositis lanceolatis, 
racemis axillaribus, fructibus coccineis. 
Genus sive subgenus a Lorantho ob modum crescendi separan- 
dum, a Nuytsia fructibus haud tripteris ne6 non positione florum 
et. braeteolarum divellendum, ab ambabus propter, albumen puta- 
mine intrusum satis diversum dicavi preclare Ludovicze Atkinson, 
cujus benignitati hane et multas alias Neo-Cambrize plantas debeo. 
Atkinsonia ligustrina. 
Nuytsia ligustrina, All. Cunn. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxv. Append. pag. 39 ;. 
F. M. Essay on the Plants of the Burdekin Expedition, p. 13; F. M. 
Fragm. Phyt. Austr. ii. 130 ; Loranthus epigseus, F. M. coll. 
Intractu montano * Blue Mountains" prope Tomah et ad amnem - 
Wheeney Creek. | W. Woolls et L. Atkinson. 
Frutex 3-5 altus, glaber. Rami satis robusti. Folia chartacea 
v. tenui-coriacea, 1—11" longa, oblongo-lanceolata, plana v. mar- 
gine leniter recurva, apice obtusa, subtus paulo pallidiora, in petio- 
lum perbrevem angustata, uninervia, integerrima, venis vix con- 
spieuis pereursa. Racemi unciam longi v. breviores, pedunculo 
perbrevi prediti, odoris inamoeni. Pedicelli floriferi circiter 1" - 
longi, apice bracteolas tres lanceolato-cymbeas 1-2" longas ge- 
rentes. Calyces pzne 12" longi. Petala circiter 3" longa, flava - 
et; scarlatina, :stivatione valvata. Stamina corolla conspicue bre- 
viora. Filamentorum pars libera pene "longa. Antherz flavz, 
vix 3" longe. Stylus vix sesquilineam excedens, rectus. Drupa 
circiter 3" longa ; pulpa coccinea. Putamen in sulcos albuminis 
profunde intrans. Albumen ultra medium incisionibus longitudi- 
nalibus regulariter exaratum, sectione iransversali stellato 8- 
lobatum. Embryo albumine pluries brevior, | 
VERBENACEA., 
Vitez acuminata. 
R. Br. Prodr, 512. 
Alte arborea, foliis trifoliatis, foliolis conspicue petiolulatis 
lanceolatis herbaceis sensim. in. acumen sepe longum obtusum 
