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“MR. CUNNINGHAM’S CANDOL 
NATURAL ORDER, DILLENIACEA, 
——— Artificial divisions a POLYADELPHIA, 
to which cS POLYANDRIA, 
secawnpoiss. this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 85, 
CAnDOLLEA. LapILLaRDIERE. SEPALA quinque, ovata, mucro- 
nata, persistentia. Prtara quinque, obovata aut obcordata. Stamina nume- 
THERE oblonge. Carpewta tria ad sex, ovoidea intus dehiscentia, stylo acu- 
minata, oligosperma: Semina ovoidea; Albumen carnosum; Embryo minnu- 
tissi SuFFrrvTicss erecti vel subvolubiles. Forra alterna ad apices ramo- 
rum vel in axillis sepe conferta, integra aut apice dentata, linearia aut cune- 
ata, basi amplencenie demum szpius transversi secta. Fores flayi ad apices 
ramulorum solitarii 
SPECIES. Canpottea CunnIncHAMII. Glaberrima, foliis linearibus in- 
tegerrimis, floralibus apice nudis, floribus ad apices ramulorum brevissimorum 
axillarium pedunculatis, petalislate obovatis sepala obtusa vel mucronulata 
ADE: 4 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CANDOLLEA. SEPALS five, ovate, mucro- 
nate, persistent. PETALS five, obovate or obcordate. STAMENS nume- 
rous, all or most of them, more or less connected at the base into several 
bundles opposite to the petals, nearly equal in size, or more frequently 
the exterior ones shorter or sterile. ANTHERS oblong, CaRrPELs 
three to six, oyoid. ALBUMEN fleshy. EMsryo very minute, 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SpeEciES, CANDOLLEA CUNNINGHAMIL. A 
low shrub, perfectly glabrous in all its parts. Brancnzs slender 
flexuose, and disposed to climb, reddish, smooth and shining. LEAvEs 
alternate, linear, about an inch and a half long, with one nerve, ter- 
minated by a little point, no cross veins apparent, the margin entire 
and a little curved downwards, rather narrowed near the base, and 
then dilated and clasping the stem, breaking off transversely close to 
the base, leaving a semicircular scar round the stem. FLOWERING 
BRANCHES very short and axillary, having the appearance of a small 
bunch of axillary leaves, from whence springs the peduncle, from an 
inch, to an inch and a half long, bearing-at its summit a single yellow 
flower. Sepats five, very much over-lapping each other, green, with 
whitish edges, and with a bract resembling the sepals, but smaller, 
