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of the corolla, alternate with its lobes; filaments short, glabrous ; 
anthers 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally ; pollen-grains 
one branch deciduous, curved, capitate at the apex; the other 
accrescent, ultimately deciduous, divided at the apex into 2 unequal, 
ovate, rather obtuse divisions. Fruit ovate-orbicular, emarginate or 
acuminate, widely divergent; petiole 3to 5 in. Peduncles 2} to 
4 in., solitary, axillary, dichotomous ; pedicels puberulous, erect, 
ultimately spreading or recurved. Flowers rather crowded, secund, 
ebracteate. Calyx puberulous. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx, 
Fruit 1 to 1} in. by 1} in. The plant varies 
much in the consistence and form of the leaves, goat even on 
© same specimen ; hence, y some writers, several species have been 
Proposed.— Hook. i.c. The Australian form is that own as var. 
moluccana. The plant has some resemblance to a yam, Dioscorea; 
and by some has been mistaken for a species of that genus. 
+ Barron River, E. Cowley, 1892. 
Order SAPINDACEZ. 
RATONTA, DC. 
R. Lessertiana, Benth. and Hook. f., Gen. Pl. i. 400. A —_ 
shrub or small tree. The branchlets, leaf-petioles, pare ~ 
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slender and drooping, 4 to 8 in. long; the branches very short, or one 
igs in. long; flowers minute, only seen at base of fruit. rm 
the In. long, globose-pyriform, glabrous, stipitate, triquetrous towa 
at “Sa examined 1-seeded. 
4D.: Daintree River, EZ. Cowley. 
Which t i. Species, with whieh F’ belie ve our Tonpoc ty fas eon 
With in Ten @ it, enjoys a wide range, being, according to Sir J. . : 
asserim, South Andaman Islands, Malacca. 
Order ONAGRARIEZ. 
(ENOTHERA, Linn. 
