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GENUS II. »ABROMA. 
Monadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Greek term, meaning not fit fox food. 
Gen. Cuan. Small trees, with stellate pubescence: calyx 5- 
cleft: petals 5, saccate at the base, with a large clawed appendage: 
sterile stamens 5, petaloid, curvéd outwards, fertile ones united into 
5~8-cleft filaments, each with 3 anthers: styles 5: capsule 5-céll- 
ed, prominently angled, dehiscent, many-seeded: seeds with an 
aril: albumen‘ fleshy: - C—< 
A. aucustum. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I.-p. 65.—Deec. prod. I. p. 485.—Roxb. 
fl. Ind. III. p.156. © 7 © : 
Syn. <A. angulata, Lam.—A. Wheeleri, Koén. 
Engrav. Lam, Ill: t. 636, 637.—Bot. Reg. VI. 518.—-Rumph. 
Amb. IV. t. 14. ¢- 
Srsc. Cuar. Small tree: branches velvety : older leaves ovate 
oblong, acuminated, serrulated, under side tomentose or stellately 
pubescent : lower leaves roundish-cordate, 3-5-angled: wings of 
the fruit truncated at the apex: flowers middle-sized, dark purp« 
Tish-brown. - 
Interior of the Peninsula, flowering nearly all the year. This 
species, known as thé Devil’s Cotton, is a doubtful native of the 
Indian continent, though the above. locality is given on the autho 
rity of Roxburgh. © ; : 
GENUS I. BYTTNERIA. 
Monadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
’ Deriv. Named after Byttner, Professor of Botany: in the Uni« 
versity of Gottingen. 
Gen. Cuar. Shrubs, or rarely herbaceous plants, usually pricks 
ly, leaves entire : peduncles 1-flowered, axillary, several together? 
calyx 5-sepaled, deciduous : petals 5, concave at the base, produced 
upwards into a kind of strap-like appendage: anthers 5, solitary, 
nearly sessile between the sterile stamens: ovary 5-celled : cells 
2-ovuled: style 1:: capsule 5-coccous, muricated and slightly echi- 
nated : ¢occj 1-seeded, dehiscent. 
(1) B. nerpacza. ( Roxb.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p, 65.—Dec. prod. I. p, 486.—Roxb, 
fil. Ind. I. p. 619.” 
Syn. Commersoniaherbacea, G. Don. 
Engrav, Roxh, Cor, I, t, 29.—Wight’s Icon, t, II, 488, 
