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of the pedicel. Stamens 8 ; fikinents very short < anthers large, bilobular, 

 and each lobe deeply grooved, bursling along the sides, arranged in a 

 square form around the centre of the flower, yellow ; pollen abundant, 

 yellow. Pistil abortive. Female flowers nodding. Calyx segments 

 closely reflected, straight or bent back at the tij)S, narrower than in the 

 male. Pistil single ; stigma 3-clell, twisted ; style straight, channelled, 

 twisted, somewhat contracted near the germen, warted, very long (half 

 an inch) ; germen superior, and left quite exposed by the reflected calyx, 

 trigonous, dark green, warted, surrounded by very short abortive filaments. 



Seeds of this plant were, in 1824, received from Mr Fraser, Colonial Bota- 

 nist, New South "Wales, who, in communicating a dried specimen, stated 

 it to be " a tall shrub, native of the interior." In this specimen, the 

 leaves are longer and more linear than in the plant described; but there 

 seems reason to think that the leaves vary somewhat in shape, for in 

 another seedling raised from the same package, the lower leaves are 

 much shorter, broadly spathulate, and somewhat lobed, while the upper 

 are long and linear, nearly resembling the native specimen. Both male 

 and female have flowered freely ia the greenhouse in the end of Febru- 

 ary and beginning of March. 



I should have described our plant with a mark of doubt as D. angustissima, 

 Becand. had not my excellent friend Dr Hooker, whom nothing escapes, 

 called my attention to the single species described in the work above 

 quoted. 



Heteropteris fulffens. 



m.fulgens ; foHis ellipticis, mucronulatis, subtus sericeo-ferrugineis, se- 

 rie glandularum versus margines notatis, superne pilis deciduis ferru- 

 gineis tectis, petiolis medio bi-glandulosis; ramulis verrucosis cumque 

 petiolis adpresse ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; paniculis terminalibus. 

 Deschiption — Shrub scandent ; bark light grey. Branches warted, com- 

 pressed, young shoots pubescent. Leaves opposite, on short petioles, el- 

 liptical, (4-5 inches long), subcoriaceous, and somewhat undulated, mu- 

 cronulate, veined ; above full green, with a deciduous adpressed pubes- 

 cence ; below a permanent adpressed silky pubescence, mixed with a 

 few coarser and more straggling hairs, and a loose row of small glands 

 along each margin. Petioles with two green glands, generally about the 

 midtlle, but varying both in number and position, yet never awanting in 

 our large plant ; when young always yielding a globule of viscid honey, 

 but often withering early, and then appearing abortive. Panicle large, 

 long, terminal, bracteate, branches decussating, spreading, two or three 

 rising within each other from the axil of the same bractea, cymose. Brac- 

 tecB for two or three pairs at the bottom of the panicle in all respects com- 

 mon leaves ; above they become small and subulate, generally rath^ ex- 

 ceeding the longest'j peduncle from their axil ; but the petiole is less al- 

 tered, and retains its glands. Pedicels rising from the axils of small su- 

 bulate bracteae, and having two similar opposite ones about their middle, 

 from the axils of which other pedicels arise, with similar structure, and 

 from these others again, in a series lengthening with the vigour of the 

 specimen. Rachis^ pedicels, and bractese pubescent, the pubescence on 

 the whole plant adpressed and rusty, on the pedicels somewhat loose, and 

 on the back of the young leaves |)ale. Flowers, few expanded at a time. 

 Calyx, segments 5, small and pointed, erect, connivent at their apices, and 

 covered with rusty adpressed pubescence ; glands B, large, oblong, green, 

 and arrangetl in pairs on the back of four of the segments, with occasion- 

 ally the rudiments of a fifth pair on the back of the fifth segment, which, 

 however, is most frequently without glands. Petals 5, clawed, oblong, 

 uneven on the surface, keeled, ragged, and reflected at their edges, spread- 

 ing from between the segments of the calyx ; when first expanded of 

 uniform yellow, afterwards orange-red, and yellow only at the edges. Sta- 

 metis 10, equal ; filaments much <lilated at the base, brown, and united, 

 above subulate, yellow, closely applied to the germen ; anthers reflected, 



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