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ANTHOCERCIS albicans. 
White-flowered Anthocercis. 

Linnean Class and Order. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. SOLANER, Brown prodr. p. 443. 
Sect, II, Corolla non plicata, regularis. Stamina didynama. Embryo leviter arcu- 
atus. Pericarpium capsulare y. baccatum. Brown l.c. p. 448. 
ANTHOCERCIS, Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla campanulata, tubo basi coarctata, sta- 
minifera; limbo 5-partito, equali. Stamina inclusa, didynama, cum rudimento 5 ti. 
Stigma capitato-emarginatum, Capsula 2-locularis, 2-valyis, valyarum marginibus in- 
flexis, placentz parallel insertis, Semina reticulata.—Frutices glabriusculi (v. pubes- 
centes). Folia alterna, petiolo basive attenuata cum ramo articulata, crassa, nunc glandu- 
loso-punctata, Flores avillares, subsolitarii, pedunculo minuté bracteato, ad articulum se- 
pitts solubili. Corolla alba. v. flava, speciosa, tubo intis striato, limbo quandoque (5)-6-8- 
partito. Brown prodr, p. 448, 

A. albicans, foliis oblongis obtusis utrinque ramisque dense tomentosis, corollis 5-par- 
titis: laciniis tubo longioribus. 
Anthocercis albicans, Cunningham in Appendix to B. Field's Geographical Memoirs of 
New South Wales. p, 335.¢. Swt. hort, brit. p. 295. 

A dwarf branchingevergreen shrub: branches slender, dense- 
ly clothed with soft wool, their points slightly pendent. Leaves 
short, almost sessile, oblong or nearly oval, obtuse, densely clothed 
on both sides with a soft grey tomentum, composed of stellate 
fascicles of short hairs. Petéoles very short, also clothed with 
fascicles of soft hairs. /Jowers axillary and terminal, fragrant. 
Peduncles very short, scarcely half the lengthof the calyx. Calya 
5-cleft; tube slightly pubescent : lacinize upright, narrow, scarcely 
acute, clothed with starry fascicles of hairs. Corolla white, 
narrowly campanulate, 5-cleft: tube contracted at the base, and 
spreading at the mouth, streaked inside with several bluish purple 
stripes, some of which are branched : lacinie stellately spreading, 
very narrow, subulately linear, longer than the tube. Stamens 
4, inserted in the tube, a little above the base, and included, 2 long 
and 2 short: filaments pubescent, flattened at the base, and 
tapering upwards : anthers peltate, kidney-shaped: pollen straw- 
