SS. 
of the pedicels, Entire part of the calyx very small, thickened inside 
into a hairy disk. Divisions of the limb lanceolate, acute, about 
two-thirds of a line long, smooth, of a delicate pink colour, collapsing, 
but not falling off after the flowering. PertTAts white, about twice as 
long as the erlyx, on a longish slender claw, inserted on the disk. 
Stamens longer than the petals, filaments slender, anthers nearly glo- 
bular. Ovaryshort, very hairy, more deeply divided than in the allied 
genera, each cell containing six or eight ovules. Styies the length of 
the stamina. Fruir not yet seen. 
PopuLar AND GrocrapuicaL Notice. This plant differs from 
Weinmannia, to which it has been referred, not only in the essen- 
tial character of the absence of any other disk than the mere thicken- 
ing of the base of the calyx, but in the clawed petals, in foliage, 
which is that of Callicome, in its peculiar inflorescence, and even 
in geographical station. The true Weinmannias are almost all Ame- 
rican, or entirely so if the Weinmannia macrostachya of the Mau- 
ritius be nothing more than an American species introduced there by 
accident or design ; for the Weinmannia trifoliata from Southern Afri-. 
ca forms the genus Platylophus of Don, and the New Zealand Wein- 
mannia racemosa helongs to Leiospermum of the same botanist. 
Acrophy!lum on the other hand is a native of extratropical Autralia. 
Its nearest affinity is without doubt with the Australian genus Calli- 
coma, but it is sufficiently distinguished by the presence of petals, the 
pluriovulated cells of the ovarium and the inflorescence. Its relation 
to Caldcluvia of Don, or Dietericia of Seringe, is much more remote, 
having little more in common with it than with all other Cunoniee. 
The quinary instead of quaternary number in the parts of the flower 
is of little or no importance as a generic distinction. G. B. 
Intropuction; Wuere Grown; Cunrure. This very pretty 
* Derivation or toe Names. 
Ackoraritom, from the Greek adjective dxpogudoc, that has leaves at the 
» in allusion to the tufts of leaves, with which the flowering-stems are 
crowned. VeEnosum, veiny, from the strongly marked veins of the leaves. 
ei: | Synonyme. 
WEINMANNIA VENOsA. Floral Cabine .” 81, t. 85, 
