NAT. ORDER. 
Acanthacece. 
GOLDFUSSIA ANISOPHYLLA. UNEQUAL-LEAVED GOLDFUSSIA. 
Class XIV. DiDYNAMiA. OrfZer II. Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Colyx^ five-parted, unequal. Corolla^ bell-form. Star 
mens, often very short, reflext. Anthers, changeable. Stigma, 
simple. Capsule, six-angular, two-valved. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, oblong, candato-acuminate, opposite, very small. 
This plant is from one and a half to tvv^o feet high, much branched 
and glabrous : branches zig-zag, patent or even, recurved, compressed, 
slightly winged ; the leawes are distichous, opposite, though appearing 
alternate by the abortion of one of every pair alternately, broadly 
lanceolate, acuminate-candate, serrated, above dark-green, with pro- 
minent nerves, beneath pale, with sunken nerves : when held between 
the eye and the light, copious small pellucid lines, generally lying in a 
transverse direction, are visible ; j^e^io/e short, flat above, keeled be- 
low, slightly winged at the margin, abortive leaf very small, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, with an obscure central nerve, sometimes altogether 
wanting ; peduncles axillary, but inclined downwards, so that they are 
in a measure concealed under the spreading leaves and branches ; 
peduncles from the axil of the fully-formed leaf; rarely one rises from 
the opposite side also ; an inch or an inch and a half long, bearing a 
terminal, sessile, glomerule, and sometimes one or two lateral ones of 
two to three flowers, and these subtended by about as many small 
bracteas ; calyx very small, of five deep, linear-lanceolate, erect, equal 
pale yellow-green segments, clothed with glandular hairs ; corolla 
funnel-shaped, the throat slightly compressed ; the limb a little irregu- 
VoL. IV.— 9. 
