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efformantibus. Coxo\\v\dduniformes,flavce. Stigmata trun- 

 cato-dilatata. Semina aucipitia. Receptaculimi convevum. 

 Brown. 



Ammobium at a turn, Brown MSS. 



An undescribed genus belonging to the same tribe with 

 Gnaphalium, discovered by Robert Brown, Esq., in 1804, 

 growing plentifully, near the shores of Port Hunter (or the 

 Coal River), in New South Wales, and named by him from 

 its growing in sand. 



Bot. Mag. 2459 (1824). 



Entel^ea arborescens. 

 polyandria monogvnia. 



Cat. 4 — 5-phyllus. Petala 4. Stamina indefinita, uni- 

 formia, antheris subrotundis, incumbentibus. Stigma den- 

 ticulatum. Capsula sphseroidea, echinata, sex locularis, 

 semi-sexvalvis, polysperma. — Arbor [parva, ligno tevissimo 

 spongioso, Solander) pube stellari {in pagina superior e 

 folii adulti parciore et subsimplici) tomentosa. Eolia cor- 

 data, angulata, duplicato-crenata, b-nervia, stipulis per- 

 sistentibus, parvis, foliaceis. Umbellse simplices, terminates, 

 pedunculate, involucro polyphyllo, brevi,. pedicellis ebrac- 

 teatis. 



Elores atbi, raro b-Jidi ; calyce deciduo, foliolis aristatis, 

 gemma (alabastro) quadricorni ; petalis Jlaccidis, apice sub- 

 laceris, staminibus corolla brevioribus, subtorulosis, omnibus 

 antheriferis ; stylo angidato, stigmate umbilicato, margine 

 denticulato. Capsularum setae longce, rigida* opacce, pubes- 

 cent es, spinula pellucida acuta recta terminate. Semina 

 in singula loculo biseriata, parva, obovata; albumine carnoso, 

 semini conformi ; embryone recto, at bo, Ion gitu dine fere 

 albu minis ; cotyledonibus planis, cordatis. 



Ord. Nat. Inter Tiliaceas, proximum genus Sparmannia, 

 quacum habitu, inflorescentia, antheris, stigmate, capsula- 



