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ANTHOCERCIS littorea. 
Fellow Anthocereis. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMTIA. 
Nat. ord. SoLanem. Jussieu gen. 124. 
SoLanem. Brown prod. 443. Sect. I. Corolla non pli- 
tata, regularis. Stam. didynama. Embryo levitér arcuatus. Pericarpium 
capsulare v. baccatum. 
ANTHOCERCIS. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. campanulata, tubo basi co- 
arctata, staminiferd; limbo 5-partito, quali. Stam. inclusa, cum rudi- 
mento quinti. Svig. capitato-emarginatum. Caps. 2-loc., 2-valv., valvarum 
marginibus inflexis, placente parallel insertis. Sem. reticulata. Frutices 
glabriusculi. Fol. alterna, petiolo basive attenuata cum ramo articulata, 
crassa, nunc glanduloso-punctata. Flores azillares, subsolitarii, pedunculo 
minute bracteato, ad articulum spits solubili. Cor. alba v. flava, speciosa, 
tubo intis striato, limbo quanddque 6-8-partito. Brown }. c. 448. 
A. littorea, foliis obovatis impunctatis margine lavibus utrinque ramulisque 
glaberrimis, corollz laciniis tubo longioribus, capsula oblonga calycem 
bis superante. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 53. uns 
Anthocercis littorea. Labillard. nov. holl. 2.19.t. 158. Brown prod. 448. , 
Frutex orgyalis, ramulis erectis subangulatis.. Folia integerrima aut den- 
tata. Flores axillares terminalesque solitarii aut in racemis pauciflorisy pedun- 
culo communi breviori pedicellis supra eundem articulatis ad summum incras- 
satis, nonnunguam ejusdem pedunculi communis apice congestis umbellam 
simulantibus, singulis sub basi stipatis bracteis 3-4, squamulisque caducis 
acutis. Cal. semiSfidus, erectus, laciniis acutis. Cor. sulphurea, tubo intus 
purpureo-lineato, vix duplo longiore calyce, limbo patente, laciniis anceolatis, 
equalibus, tubo longioribus. Stam. tubo inclusa, basin versis inserta; fil. 
infra latiusculis villosis: anth. 2-loc., ovatis. Germ. superum: stylus teres : 
stig. subcapitatum. Caps. ovato-oblonga, supra attenuata: sem. plurima 
reniformia, scrobiculata, centrali affixa receptaculo, adnato utringue valvula- 
rum marginibus introflexis, planis, cum eodem dissepimentum constituentibus. 
Labillardiére loc. cit. 
An extremely rare plant in our collections, which 
we have been enabled to publish from a specimen that 
flowered in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy, Hammersmith, in May last. A native of Lewin’s 
Land, on the south-west coast of New Holland, whence it 
was first introduced by Mr. P. Good in 1803. 
The representation of this species in M. Labillardiére’s 
work is from a dried subject. It is mentioned as a shrub, 
growing to the height of five or six feet, with upright some- 
what cornered smooth branches, Leaves loosely scattered, 
