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X. A Description of several Species of Plants from New Holland. 

 By Edward Rudge, Esq. F.R.S. and L.S. 



Read April 18, 1809, and January l6, 1810. 



Centrolepis cuspidigera. 

 Monandria Monogynia. 



Tab. XII. Fig. 1. 



Centrolepis foliis parum pubescentibus : spathis longissime 



cuspidatis, valde hispidis : paleis eraarginatis. 

 Devauxia Billardieri. Brown Prod. v. 1. 252. 

 Planta tres ad quatuor pollices longa. 

 Radix fibrosa. 



Scapi plures, erecti, teretes, basi foliis vaginati. 

 Spathce bivalves, ovatae, longissime cuspidatae, basi concavoe, pilis 



albidis rigidis hispidae, decern- ad duodecim-florae. 

 Calyx null us. 

 Corolla nulla ; Palea unilaterales, tot quot flores, ovato-oblongae, 



emarginatae. 

 Stamen. Filamenium filiforme, paled longius, basi pistilli inser- 



tum. Anthera cordata, versatilis. 

 Pistillum. Germcn superum, ovatum ; Stylus tripartitus ; Stigma 



acuta, gland ulosa. 



Capsula trilocularis ; loculis a basi inaequaliter distantibus, mo- 



nospermis. 



Semina 



