NAT. ORDER. 



Acanihacc(P. 



GOLDFUSSIA ANISOPHYLLA. UNEQUAL-LEAVED GOLDFUSSIA. 



Class XIV. DiDVNAMiA. Older II. Angiospermia. 



Gen. Cliar. Cofijx, five-parted, unequal. Corolla, bell-form. Sia- 

 mcns, often veiy short, reflext. Anthers, chang-eable. S/igma, 

 simple. Capsule, six-angular, two-valved. 



Spc. Char. Leaves, oblong, candato-acuminate, opposite, very small. 



This /j/an^ is from one and a half to two feet high, much branched 

 and glabrous : branches zig-zag, patent or even, recurved, compressed, 

 slightly winged ; the leaves are distichous, opposite, though appearing 

 alternate by the abortion of one of eveiy pair alternately, broadly 

 lanceolate, acuminate-candate, seirated, above dark-green, with pro- 

 minent nerves, beneath pale, with sunken nerves: when held between 

 the eye and the light, copious small pellucid lines, generally lying in a 

 transverse direction, are visible ; petiole short, flat above, keeled be- 

 low, slightly winged at the margin, abortive leaf very small, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, with an obscure central nerve, sometimes altogether 

 wanting ; jjcxlunclcs axillary, but inclined downwards, so that they are 

 in a measure concealed under the spreading leaves and branches ; 

 peduncles from the axil of the fully-formed leaf; rarely one rises from 

 the opposite side also ; an inch or an inch and a half long, bearing a 

 terminal, sessile, glomerule, and sometimes one or two lateral ones of 

 two to three flowers, and these subtended by about as many small 

 bracteas ; caJy.r very small, of five deep, linear-lanceolate, erect, equal 

 pale yellow-gi-een segments, clothed with glandular hairs ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped, the throat slightly compressed ; the limb a little in-egii- 

 VoL. IV.— 9, 



