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efformantibus. CorolMse iim/ormes,favce. Stigmata ifr^- 

 cato-dilatata. Sexnina a/icipitia. Receptaculuiii convexum. 

 Brown. 



Ammobimu alatum, Brown MSS. 



An undescribed genus belonging to the same tribe with 

 Gnaphalium, discovered by Robert Brown, Esq., in 1804, 

 growing plentifully, near the shores of Port Hunter (or the 

 Coal River), in New South Wales, and named by him from 

 its growing in sand. 



Bot. Mag. 2459 (1824). 



EnTEL/EA auborescens. 



POLYANDRIA MONOGVNIA. 



Col. 4^5-phyllus. Petala 4. Stmnina indefinita, uni- 

 formia, antheris subrotundis, incumbentibus. 8tigma den- 

 ticulatum. Capsula sphseroidea, echinata, sex locularis, 

 semi-sexvalvis, polysperma.- — Arbor [parva, ligno Icevissimo 

 spongioso, Solander) pube stellari {in pagina superiore 

 folii adulti parciore et subsimplici) tomentosa. Eolia cor- 

 data, angulata, dvplicato-crenata, h-nervia, stipulis per- 

 sistenfibus, parvis, foliaceis. Umbellee simplices, terminales, 

 pedunculatm, involucre polypliyllo, brevi, pedicellis ebrac- 

 teatis. 



Flores albi, raro ^-fidi ; calyce deciduo, foliolis aristatis, 

 gemma (alabastro) quadricorni ; petalis Jlaccidis, apice sub- 

 laceris, staminibus corolla brevioribus, siibtorulosis, omnibus 

 antheriferis ; stylo angulato, stigmate umbilicato, margine 

 denticulate. Capsularum setse longce, rigidce. opacce, pubes- 

 centes, spinula pellucida acuta recta terminatce. Semina 

 in singula loculo biseriata, parva, obovata; albumine carnoso, 

 seniini confer mi ; embryone recte, albo, longitudine fere 

 albmninis ; cotyledonibus planis, cordatis. 



Ord. Nat. Inter Tiliaceas, proximum genus Sparmannice, 

 quacum habitu, inflorescentia, antheris, stigmate, capsula- 



