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*^ DIPLOPELTIS Hugelii. 

 Baron IlnfjeVs Diplopeltis. 



POLYGAMIA MON(ECIA. 



Nat. ord. Sapindace^. 



DIPLOPELTIS. Floras polyganio-inonceci. Sepala 5, aestivatione ini- 

 bricata. Petala 4, versus latus superius /loris flexa, tpstivatione imbricata. 

 Discus diinidiatus, posticus, carnosus, truncatus, denticulatus, declivis. Sta))iina 

 ssepius 8, hypogvna, ascendentia, in floribus foemineis sterilia nana. Ovanum 

 superum, 2-:i-loculare, inflatum ; ovula cuique loculo duo, funiculis propriis 

 elongatis ascendentia ; stylus tortilis, simplex. (Cwpsida 3-locularis, 3-parti- 

 bilis, loculis monospermis ; semina e funiculo longiusculo in arillum minimum 

 expanse erecta. Embryo exalbuminosus, curvatus: cotyiedones spiralitcr convo- 

 lutse, Enfll.^ 



D. Hitgelii ; cinerea, pilosa, ramis teretibus, foliis cnneatis obtusis grosse den- 

 tatis basi nunc piimatifidis, panicuhi tenninall glandulosa, capsula obcor- 

 data cinerea glandulosa aptera. 



A short notice of this very pretty plant has already been 

 given at No. 70 of the miscellaneous matter of the present 

 volume. For its introduction we are indebted to Mr. An- 

 drew Toward, gardener to H. R. H. the Duchess of Glou- 

 cester ; wiio obtained its seeds from the Swan River, where, 

 according to Baron Hugel, it is found about the town of 

 Freemantle ; it had been previously raised at Vienna in 

 that noble traveller's garden. 



It proves to be a hardy greenhouse shrub, growing about 

 3 feet high, and flowering in April and May. It requires 

 the same treatment as such Cape plants as Hebenstreitias, 

 striking freely from cuttings of the young wood, and will 

 bear to be planted out in the open border in summer. 



What gives this plant a very great interest, quite inde- 

 pendent of its pretty appearance, is the difficulty of deter- 

 mining in a satisfactory manner its natural affinities. It is 

 one of those anomalous forms which stand intermediate as it 



* From cnrX:,c double, and tt.'X-;/ a buckler ; ])ut tlic application of tbe name 

 does not occin- to me. 



