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X. Prockia Crucis. LinncBus. 



This shrub was raised from seeds collected for the Society 

 at the Havannah, by Mr. George Don, in 1822 ; and pro- 

 duced its flowers in the stove in August last. The young 

 branches are round and pubescent, the old ones nearly smooth, 

 and covered with a light brown bark. The leaves are alter- 

 nate, stalked, ovate-acuminate, equally serrated, a little cordate 

 at base, bright green above, paler, and slightly pubescent on 

 the nerves beneath ; footstalks a third the length of the 

 leaves, slender, hairy ; stipules one third the length of foot- 

 stalks, falcate, glandular at edge. Flowers in simple terminal 

 few-flowered racemes. Footstalks long, shaggy ; sepals ovate, 

 acuminate, downy on each side, but pale on the inside, occa- 

 sionally having the rudiment of a fourth sepal. Petals none. 

 Stamens numerous, bright yellow. It is not improbable that 

 this may be the variety of P. Crucis, figured by Lamarck, in 

 his Illustrationes, tab. 465. fig. 1, and distinguished by M. 

 De Candolle, on account of the cordate base of its leaves. 

 But the stipules are decidedly falcate, as in the true P. Crucis, 

 and the sepals generally three in number, on which account 

 I incline to think the plant which has flowered in the Garden 

 of the Society, the original form of the species. It is a 

 stove plant of little beauty, easily increased by cuttings. 

 XI. Diplolepis .ovata. 



Two species of Diplolepis were described* in the Report of 

 last year ; another is now to be added, which was brought for 

 the Society from China, by Mr. Potts, in 1822. It resembles 

 Diplolepis vomitoria in its habit, but is smaller in all its parts 



* Diplolepis vomitoria and Diplolepis apiculata No. VIII., and No. IX., 

 page 68. 



