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tenuibus, tei'etibus, ferrugineo tomentosis ; foliis ellipticis, 
imo cuneatim acutis, apice acumine brevi acuto vel obtusulo 
attenuatis, e basi 5-nerviis, nervis extus ramosis, ramis 
arcuatim nexis, crassiusculis, supra nitidis, reticulatis, in 
nervis tantum puberulis, subtus cano-glaucis, molliter pube- 
rulis, marginibus revolutis et tomentellis j petiolo tenui, 
pubescente, limbo triple breviore : paniculis ^ axillaribus, so- 
litariis vel geminis, laxe ramosis, corj^mbosis, trichotome di- 
visis, tomentosis; floribus pedicellatis ; sepalis 9, rotatis, 
3 exterioribus lanceolatis, dimidio brevioribus, 3 intermediis 
lanceolato-oblongis, acutis, 3 interioribus ellipticis, istis sequi- 
longis sed duplo latioribus, cunctis intus paulo, extus densius 
longe pubescentibus, ciliatis ; petalis 6, sepalis interioribus tri- 
plo brevioribus, glabris, cuneato-subtrilobis, lobis rotundatis, 
lateralibus involutis ; staminibus 6, petala paulo excedentibus. 
— In Australasia interiore : v. s. in herb. Lindl. (Mitcbel) . 
This plant was collected in the “interior of New Holland^' 
in 1836 by the Expedition under Major Mitchel. The branches 
are slender, with axils ^-1 inch apart ; the leaves are 2 inches 
long, inch broad, on a petiole 8 lines long: the panicle is 
1-1 i inch long, 1 inch broad, with close alternate branches, 
and short secondary branchlets, each bearing about three alter- 
nate pedicellated flowers; the pedicels are 1| line long, the ex- 
panded flower 2 lines in diameter. 
39. Legnephora. 
The type of this genus is a plant from Australia, the Cocculus 
Moorii of Dr. Mueller, which Messrs. Bentham and Hooker 
referred to a well-known Indian species, Pericampylus incanus ; 
and in my description of that species I have alluded to the great 
discrepancies existing between them. It differs from that genus 
in its glanduliferous, cuneate, orbicular petals, in its free stamens 
in the flower, and in the want of petals, in its peculiar sterile 
stamens, and a difierent stigma in the ? flower, and in the widely 
diff'erent form of the putamen and structure of the seed. The leaves 
are broadly ovate, often cordate at base with five straight basal 
nerves reaching nearly to the apex and much branched exter- 
nally, polished and reticulated above, glauco-pruinose beneath, 
on a pubescent petiole more than half their length. The ^ 
axillary panicle is about the length of the petiole, with some- 
what verticillate branches : the ? inflorescence is much shorter, 
with a bifurcate peduncle, each branch bearing about three 
alternate pedicellated flowers : the ^ flower has six sepals, six 
petals, and six free stamens : the $ flower has six sepals, no pe- 
