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constituente latiore ; anticaruni media lateralibus angustiore. Slamina tubo 

 iiiclusa, supra medium unguium inserta ; Filamenta quatuor, brevia ; superiore 

 sterili apice cum stigmato counato ; reliqua autiicrifcra : Ant/tene lutcrales 

 dimidiataj ; inferior didyma, lobis cum iis latcralium longitudiiialiter coiinexis, 

 ita ut lobus singulus inferioris cum respondenti laterali loculum unicum tandem 

 bivalvem coustituit, nullo vestigio dissepimcnti : Fallen triangularc. Squanue 

 hypogyiKje uulla^. Ocarium turbinatum pubescens apiceque oniatum pilis brevi- 

 bus crassis pellucidis strictis, monosi)ermum : Stylus curvatus glabor sursum 

 incrassatus deciduus : Siifjma diiatat um obliquum, hinc apice lilamcnti arc- 

 tissime couualum, iude desinens in coriiua duo paralleia distautia subulata. 

 Nux Crustacea obovata striata pilosa, apiceque coronata pappo brevi e pills 

 strictis crassioribus formato. 



Obs. In my general observations on Protcaccsc I have 

 noticed two very remarkable characters of Synapliea, 

 namely, the cohesion of the barren Ulamcnt with the 

 stigma, which is peculiar to this genus, and the structure 

 and connection of the antherse, in which it agrees with 

 Conospermum : it is also remarkable that these two nearly 

 related genera should differ in the position of their barren 

 and fertile stamina with relation to the perianthium ; 

 plants of the same natural family very generally agreeing 

 in the order of abortion or suppression of these organs ; 

 to this, however, some other exceptions are known, and one 

 has been already noticed as occurring in Drapetes. 



The genus Synaphea seems to be confined to the south- 

 west coast of New Holland, for it is more likely that 

 Folypodium sjnnulosum of Burmannus (Jlor. ind. 233. t, 

 Q>l.f. 1.) which I have formerly referred to this genus, as 

 well as Adiantwm truncatum of the same author, long since 

 determined to be a species of Acacia, by Mr. Dryandcr, 

 w^ere brought from that coast to Batavia by one of the 

 Dutch navigators, perhaps by Vlaming, than that they are 

 really natives of Java, from which Burmannus received 

 them. 



DASYPOGON. 608 



Ord. Nat. Juncea inter Xerotem et Calectasiam. 

 Syst. Liim. Ilexandria Monogynia^ post Xeropliytam. 



Char. Gen. Fcriani]dum^\\\^Q,y.\ <',?7^r//A9 tuhulosuni, 

 trifidum : Interius triphyllum, foliolis semij)ctaloi(h'is 



