ACROPHYL'LUM VENO'SUM. 
VEINED ACROPHYLLUM, 
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No. 95, 
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DECANDOLLE, 
GENUS. Acropuyttum. Catyx liber, regularis, quinquepartitus, persis- 
tens. Prtexa quinque, lineari- hee unguiculata. Stamina decem, disco 
parvo tenui calyci adnato inserta. Ovarivm sessile liberum, hirtum, biloculare, 
loculis pluri-ovulatis, carpellis facile solubilibus. Sryz1 duo, subulati, glabri, 
acutiusculi, stigmatibus oblongis, sublateralibus. Fructus. Frutex Aus- 
tralasicus. Forta opposita, simplicia. Srievix interpetiolares. InFrioreEs- 
cENTIA axillaris, umbellato-fasiculata, pseudoverticillata, multiflora 
Cuaracter oF THE GeNUs, ACROPHYLLUM. Catyx free, regu- 
lar, divided near to the base into five persistent sepals. PETALS five, 
linear-oblong, clawed. STamENs ten, inserted on a small thin disk, 
entirely adnate to the base of the calyx. Ovary sessile, free, hairy, 
two-celled, the cells separating very easily from one another, each 
with several ovules. Sryres two, subulate, smooth, pointed, the stig- 
mas oblong, lateral, at the end of the styles. 
DESscRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, - AcROPHYLLUM VENOsUM. STEM 
shrubby, erect, branched, in.the specimen figured about eighteen 
inches high. BraNcHEs reddish, stiff, smooth, with a few appressed 
hairs in the upper part. Leaves opposite, sessile or nearly so, articu- 
lated on the stem, ovate or oblong-ovate, deeply and regularly toothed, 
ooth, green, and reticulate on the upper side, white, with a very 
minute pubescence on the other side, the mid-rib and pinnated veins 
prominent, red and smooth, of a leathery consistence, and somewhat 
folded on the margin. Sviputes lanceolate, deciduous, sometimes 
concrete. FLORAL-LEAVEs scarcely larger than the stipules, and simi- 
lar to them in form. Ftowers numerous in the axille of the floral 
leaves, forming a sort of interrupted raceme crowned by a tuft of ste- 
rile leaves similar to those of the stem, but at the time of flowering 
smaller and reddish. In each axilla is a very short, common peduncle 
subdivided into a great number of red, slightly hairy pedicels, ioe 
about a line long. A few small bracts are found at the base of som 
REFERENCE TO THE DissECTIONS. 
~ a Stamen. 3,asingle Flower. 4, the cpreetensacharaglche and Stamens removed, 
ES) scious Dulexcilid. vec, 5, the Ovary. 6, a Petal. 
