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ANTHOCERCIS littorea. 
VY. ellow-flowered Anthocercis. 
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Linnean Class and Order. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. SOLANEZE. Calyx 5-divisus, (varé 4-divisus,) persistens. Co- 
rolla monopetala, hypogyna, limbo 5-tido, (raré 4-fido,) regulari v. parim inequali, 
decidua; estivatione in veris plicaté, in spuriis imbricati. Stamina epipetala, tot quot 
laciniw limbi, iisdemque alterna, unico nunc abortiente. Ovarium 1, 2-4-loculare, po- 
lyspermum, Stylus 1. Stigma obtusum, rard lobatam. Pericarpium 2-4-loculare, v. 
capsula, dissepimento parallelo et duplicato ; v. bacca placentis dissepimento adna- 
tis. Semina numerosa, sessilia. Albumen carnosum, Embryo inclusus, plis minis aren- 
atus, spe excentricns. Radiculé umbilicum spectante.—Herbe v. Frutices. Folia al- 
terna, indivisa v. lobata; floralia quandoque bina juxta posita. Inflorescentia varia, 
sepé extraalaris, pedicellis ebracteatis. Brown prodr. 1, p. 443-444. 
Sect. II. Corolla non plicata, regularis. Stamina didynama. Embryo leviter ar- 
cuatus. Pericarpium capsulare v. baccatum, Brown l. c. p.448. 
ANTHOCERCIS, Supra fol. 16. 
A. littorea, foliis obovatis impunctatis margine levibus utrinque ramulisque glaberri- 
mis, coroll laciniis tubo longioribus, capsulé oblonga calycem bis superante. 
Brown prodr. p. 448. 
Anthocercis littorea. Labill. nov. holl.2. p.19. t. 158. Botan. regist. 212. Spreng. syst. 
veg. 2. p. 841. | 
Stem suffruticose, erect, branched, from 1 to 2 feet high: 
branches smooth, furrowed from one leaf to the next, and ter- 
minated in a panicle of flowers. Leaves obovate, scarcely acute, 
smooth on both sides, slightly viscous, some entire, others more 
or less toothed, attenuated at the base. I’lowers yellow, striped 
with purple on the inside. Bractes small, sharp-pointed, deci- 
duous. Pedicles slender, smooth, three times the length of the 
bractes. Calyw# 5-cleft, the lacinize subulate, about half the 
length of the tube of the corolla. Corolla campanulate, tube 
contracted at the base: limb equally 5-parted, the laciniz 
spreading, linear, acute, with revolute margins, nearly double 
the length of the tube. Stamens 4, inserted in the base of the 
tube, two long and two short, with the rudiment of a fifth 
between the two longest: filaments flat and fringed at the base, 
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