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Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEX. 
Asystasia Lawiana, Dalz.; caule herbaceo erecto quadrangulari nodoso 
trichotomo, foliis elliptico-oblongis acutis basi in petiolum pollicarem 
subito angustatis supra scabriusculis subtus nervis hispidis cum pe- 
tiolo 4 poll. longis 2 poll. latis, spicis terminalibus solitariis brevi- 
bus, floribus approximatis oppositis sessilibus decussatis, bracteis 
bracteolisque lanceolatis acuminatis foliaceis trinerviis villosis illis 
corollam superantibus. 
Bractee 9 lin., bracteole 5 lin. longs. Calycis lacinie subulatæ, 
glanduloso-puberule, 2 lin. longe. Corolla parva, alba, bilabiata, 
1-8 lin. longa, labio superiore 4-lobo, lobis obtusis æqualibus, in- 
_ feriore integro, palato transverse rugoso, medio suleato, ibique pilis 
introflexis lineato. Capsula immatura glandulosa, matura 8 lin. 
longa; semina, ut in genere, 4, fusca. Filamenta glabra, antherarum 
loculi basi callosi. Stigma brevissime bilobum.— Crescit prope Dar- 
- whar; fl. temp. pluviali. 
A remarkable plant, discovered by my friend Mr. J. S. Law. Though 
it has the smallest flowers I have seen in the genus, yet the genus itself 
is here exhibited in its most highly-developed form, for in all known 
species, with the exception of 4. denticulata (N. ab E.), the bracts on 
the other side of the rachis, opposite each flower, are sterile or empty, 
the flower being undeveloped; hence the generic character of “ flores 
. secundi," taken from a series of what I may be allowed to call unper- 
.. fected forms, is not perhaps quite correct. In the present species each 
. bract subtends a flower, and these bracts also are more highly deve- 
.. loped than usual, as they are — more than scales in the species 
previously known. 
se. Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSZÆ. 
Glycine pentaphylla, Dalz. ; caule tereti volubili strigoso, foliolis biju- 
gis cum impari lanceolatis mucronatis supra sparsim subtus crebre 
strigosis, floribus axillaribus interrupte spicatis, spicis strictis rigidis 
solitariis vel geminis folio brevioribus. 
Folia 5 poll. longa, foliola prominulo-retienlata, estipellata, inferiora 
minora, impari maximo, 3 poll. longo, medio 1 poll. lato. Flores in 
. racbi tereti strigosa gemini, subsessiles, minimi, crebri. Bractea 
. minuta acuta sub quoque pedicello Mn tertia inter pedicellos. 
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