Colebreokia. DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, 25 
COLEBROOKIA. Smith. 
Aggregate. Common perianth imbricated; proper be- 
neath, five-cleft, Corollets one-petalled, irregular, Germ 
superior, four-lobed ; lobes one-seeded; attachment interior. 
Seeds four, naked, Receptacle naked. 
A.C. éernifolia, Se i 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves three-fold, lanceolate, serrulate. 
_ A native of Mysore, from thence the seeds were sent by 
Dr. Buchanan to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where the 
shrabs blossom in February and March. 2 
__. Trunk (in seven years old plants) short, thick, and woody, 
Bark light-brown, and ‘pretty smooth, Branches three-fold, 
ascending; young shoots downy ; height of the whole plant 
from five to eight feet. Leaves three-lobed, petioled, drooping, 
lanceolate, serrate, soft, with much very fine down, from 
four to six inches long, and from one to two broad. Petioles 
round, very downy, about an inch long. Panieles terminal, 
erect, composed of three-fold, cylindric aments, closely cover- 
ed with numerous fascicles, of most minute, aggregate, white 
flowers, on a naked, flat, common receptacle, surrounded by 
a from ten to twenty-leaved common calyx, or involucre, 
Calya deeply five-parted ; divisions subulate, nearly, as long 
as the corol, clothed with much, long, soft, fine, white wool, 
These divisions lengthen much, and become more woolly by ~ 
the time the seeds are ripe, giving to the aments, or ramitica- 
tions of the panicle, a much larger and more Woolly appear- 
ance than when in blossom. Coro/ monopetalous. Tube 
short. Border four-parted ; upper divisions emarginate; un- 
der three-parted, with the middle segments longer, and 
broader, Filament short. Anthers small, hid in the tube 
of the corol. . Germ four-lobed, hairy. Style twice the 
length of the corol, half two-cleft, and the rest seems oe 
ed of two portions, as in | Perilla, Stigmas two, acute. Peri 
carp none. ees four; obovate, bas pais § ia 
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