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FIELDIA avsrraus. 
New Holland Fieldia. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.—Nat. Orp. ss tetas 
Gan. Cuan—Cal. duplex, ert (bractea) hie Po , Supar- 
ellatum. Bacca (alba) spongiosa, carnosa, 1-locularis. Semina 
_ numerosa, parva, nidulantia—Cunn. 
chicas australis. 
recur CunNincuam, in Field's Mem. of N. S. Wales, p. 364. (with a 
__ figure). 
: aa shrubby. Stem climbing and rooting, so as to be — 
_ sitical upon the trunks of trees, branched, with the branches, e 
the younger ones, clothed with a dense ferruginous down; the older 
ones and stems nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite, remote, very unequal 
in size, generally a small one being placed opposite the larger, elliptical, 
‘acute at both extremities, deeply serrated in the upper half, “ entire in 
_ the old ones ;’ downy on each side, the upper of a dark green colour, 
_. the under side pale rusty. Veins obscure. Petiole very short and downy. 
pendulous flower. Exterior calyx (bractea) spathiform, ovate, deeply cut _ 
ay bond two equal lanceolate segments: inner calyx 5-partite, segments lan- 
- eeolate, and, as well as the outer calyx, downy. Corolla greenish-white, 
: see 2 inches long, slightly pubescent and veiny, tubular and ventri- 
_ cose, the limb cut into 5 short, nearly eq ual, rounded segments, scarce- 
