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HEMICLIDIA* Baxtcri. 

 Baxter's Hemiclidia. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. PnoTEACEiE Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botamj, p. 68.) 



HEMICLIDIA. — Pcrianthiura quadrifidum, regulare. Anthcrce laminis 

 concavis incluste. Siptamuhe hypogynre qualuor. Ovarium uiiiloculare, 

 bi-ovulatum. Pericardium subcrustaccum, undiiiue barbatum, hinc apice 

 dehisoens, ind6 rumpens. Semen unicum matiirescens, ventricosum, apterum. 



Receptaculum comvmne planum. Involucrum imbricatum. Frutex {hahitu 



omninh Dryandne) erectus, ra7nosissimns. YoWn. pinnati/ida, lobis mucronatis 

 pungentibus, super eglandulosa ; suhter reticulato-venosa, areolis lacunosis 

 land crispatd replctis, fundo glandu lifer is. Invohicra terminalia, solitaria, 

 foliis confertis interioribus nanis obvallata. — Brown suppl. prim, prodr. 

 p. 40. 



H. Baxteri. R. Brown I. c. 



A specimen of this rare plant was communicated to us 

 by Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery, in June last; it 

 having been raised from seeds sent home by Mr. William 

 Baxter. It is a very handsome evergreen shrub, native of 

 Lucky Bay, on the west coast of New Holland. 



Having had no good opportunity of describing it, we 

 have had nothing to add to the account given of the plant 

 by Mr. Brown, who observes, that the genus is only dis- 

 tinguishable from Dryandra by its pericarpium being of a 

 somewhat crustaceous texture, and having no regular de- 

 hiscence beyond the summit ; by its ventricose wingless 

 seed ; and by its dissepiment, which is formed by the co- 

 hering testee of the ovula, being of a cobwebby, membranous 



* The meaning of this word is not explained by its author. It seems to 

 have been formed from rtcKrv, half, and kMi'm, to shut up ; in reference to 

 the structure of the fruit, which is described as dehiscing only at the apex. 



