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frequently six^ when the stamens correspond in number : under 

 the usual pentamerous development^ one or two of the lobes 

 of the border and one of the stamens are sometimes smaller 

 and defective, but this appears always caused by the injuries 

 produced by insects, to which the flowers are subject, rather than 

 the consequence of any real irregularity. 



The following is an amended description of its generic cha- 

 racter : 



Anthotrociie, Endl. Gen. PL p. 1404; Nov* Stirp. Mus. 

 Vindob. 7; A. DC. Prodr. xiii, 674.— Char, emend.— Ca/y^ 

 campanulatus, ultra medium 5-6-fidus, laciniis subacutis, extus 

 lanato-tomentosus, intus glanduloso-pubescens, persistens. 

 Corolla extus lanato-tomentosa, tubo basi breviter cylindrico, 

 dein late campanulato, limbo explanato-rotato, 5-6-partito' 

 laciniis subsequalibus, utrinque tomentosis, sestivatione (ut in 

 Anihocercide) applicativa. Stamina 5-6, inclusa, tubi coarc- 

 tatione ex annulo dense tomentoso orta, filamenta hinc com- 

 planata, valde geniculata et barbata, superne glabra, et tenu- 

 iora, apice reflexa; antherce rotundatae, profunde cordat^e, versus 

 sinum affixse, extrorsse, 1-loculares, 2-valves, rima hippocrepi- 

 formi extus dehisccutes, receptaculo poHinis in fundum glo- 

 boso. Pollen globosum, reticulatum. Ovarium obovatum 

 dimidio basah disco libero cupulari carnoso margine crenato 

 circumdatum, 2-loculare: ovula plurima, adseendentia, pla- 

 centis utrinque dissepimento adnatis aflSxa. Stylus fiHformis, 

 apice incurvus. Stigma clavatum, sub-bilobum. Capsula 

 ovata, calyce recondita, 2-locularis, septifrage 4-valvis, valvis 

 coriaceis, dissepimento piano, lunato^ coriaceo, soluto, imo se- 

 minifero, superne fisso. Semina tereti-oblonga, subincurva 

 hilo infra medium faciei ventralis affixa, testa favoso-scrobicu- 

 lata. Embryo (sec. Endl.) in axi albuminis carnosi, cotyledo- 

 nibus brevissimis obtusis, radicula infera tereti, basi incurva 



imo spcctante. — Frutex Australasia cm 

 densissime lanato-tompntnsin 4ip.^fihjji • 



folia alterna^ ovata vel 



obovata, integra, crassiiiscula, brevissime petiolata, juniores in 

 ramulis novellis valde conferti, et hinc flores solitarii, subses- 

 sites, parvi, violacei, valde approximati, et subterminales : calyx 

 et corolla dense tomentosi. 



1. Anthotroche pannosa , Endl. he. cit. ; Walpers, Rep. iii. 236- 

 DC. Prodr. xiii. 676; — fruticosa, tomento cinereo dense pan- 

 nosa, ramis pedalibus, ramulis altemis, foliis obovatis vel 

 ovatis, obtusissimis, basi nonnihil attcnuatis, brevissime petio- 

 latis, crassiusculis, adultis stellato-pubescentibus, junioribus 

 densissime tomentosis, imbricatim aggregatis; floribus soli- 



