with a simple wing at the end of each, like those we see on | 
the common Maple. ee 4 
Fucata forms an upright branching smooth shrub, not 
exceeding 3 or 4 feet in the specimens we have scen, 
Leaves 4 inches long or more, elliptic, acute, bristled be- 
neath with decumbent brittle stinging double-pointed 
prickles fastened at the middle, as in other species of the — 
genus, above nearly free from this armature. Peduncles 
opposite, axillary, umbellately. corymbose, very short: pe- 
dicles many, an inch or two in length, one-flowered, parted 
by bractes, substantial, round, somewhat thickened to. — 
wards the flower, with a double-scaled knee or joint, a little 
above the base. Calyx small, green, segments ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, concave, fitted to the germen, each with a two- 
pored prominent elliptic twin caruncle nearly equal to itself 
at the back. Corolla irregular, rotate, fleshy, brittle, of a 
whitish pink colour: petals spatulate, distant, with a nar. | 
row unguis and broad lamina; three upper ones larger — 
jagged or unevenly indented, the middle of the three rather — { 
the largest hastately orbicular and more markedly cut at 
the edge; two lowest hastately ovate, entire. Stamens the 
length of the ungues of the petals, monadelphous below the 
middle, distinct and connivent above: anthers oblong yel~ 
low, inserted by their base at the point of a short subulate 
filament, bursting inwards, the two cells growing to the flat 
introverted front of the thick oblong receptacle with a 
keeled back. Germen shining, ovate-oblong, rounded~ | 
trigonal, with three filiform scarcely shorter continuous 
styles; each having a blunted point for stigma. 
‘The corolla, when closed, reminds us of that of. the 
well-known Katia latifolia in. the same state. a 
a The calyx when the corolla is removed. 6 The stamens. c The pistif. 
d An unripe drupe with the three persistent styles. e¢ A transverse section 
of the same, showing the three imperfect nuts or stones. 
