PLATE DLXVI. 





CALLICOMA SERRATIFOLIA 



Sawed-leaved Calticoma. 





CLASS XI. ORDER II. 



DODECANDRIA DIGYNIA. Stamens 11 to 19. Styles 2. 



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GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Flokes in capitulis subrotundis, pedunculatis -, 

 involucro sub 4-phyllo. Calyx 4 — 5-phyl- 

 lus, foliolis lanceolatis. Corolla 0. Sta- 

 mina 11 — 19, calyce triplo longiora, cre- 

 ceptaculo. Styli 2, filiformes : stigmate 

 simplici : germen superum, monoloculare, 

 polyspermum. 



Flowers in little round heads, upon footstalks ; 

 with an involucre of about 4 leaves. Calyx 

 of 4 or 5 leaves, the leaflets lanced. Blos- 

 som none. Stamens from 11 to 19, thrice 

 as long as the calyx, growing from the re- 

 oeptacle. Styles 2, thread-shaped. Stigma 

 simple. Germen above, 1 -celled, and 

 many-seeded. 





REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A flowef . 



2. The same spread open, one tip magnified 



3. The seed- bud and pointals. 



4. The same magnified. 



Call 1 co ma serraiifolia is a native of New South Wales, and has now for several years in some choice 

 collections adorned the green-house and conservatory in early spring with its line heads of flowers; but 

 to whom we are indebted for its first introduction we are uncertain. Some botanists have considered it 

 as a congener of Forster's Codia, to which it has certainly a considerable affinity ; but as we cannot ex- 

 actly sec the propriety of coupling an apetalous flower having so many stamens with one that is penta- 

 petalous and octandrous, and of which we have no description of the germen or fruit ; and there being 

 great probability that more plants of this family may be discovered in the vast tracts of New Holland 

 yet unexplored, we have rather chose to describe it as distinct, than to excuse ourselves by leaving it to 

 be separated at some future period and create more changes of names, a circumstance always to be de- 

 precated and avoided as much as possible by Naturalists. Callicoma is a middle-sized shrub with the 

 leaves finely cottony and whitish on the under side, and has considerable beauty even when out of blos- 

 som. Jt is propagated by layers. 





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