516 
ABROMA augusta. 
Smooth-stalked Ahroma. 
et 
POLYADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MALvAcER. Jussiew gen. 271. Div. V. Stamina basi in 
ceo sessilem connata, sterilia fertilibus intermixta, definita aut rarids 
«ndefinita. 
* ABROMA. Cal. 5-partitus persistens.,. Pet. basi fornicata (nectarium 
Finn. suppl.) apice 10-fidum, laciniis 5 brevibus 3-fidis 3-antheriferis, 3-al- 
jetnis sterilibus erectis linearibus apice recurvato-fornicatis. Styli 5 approxi- 
jaati; stig. 5. Caps. oblonga truncata mucronata, 5-alata, 5-locularis, 
gupra dehiscens, polysperma; sem. numerosa (nigra scabra. ovato-globosa) 
geceptaculis barbatis utrinque adherentia, incompleté arillata. Irate, 
fores (THEOBROM#) awillares (rectitis oppositifolii) ; fructus Flipiscr. 
Juss. |, c. 276, ee 
A. augusta, ramis tomentosis leevibus, foliis adultis subtts pube simplicis- 
sima, capsule alis apice truncatis: angulo exteriore acutiusculo. Brown 
in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4.409. ¥e 
‘Abroma augusta. Linn. suppl. 841. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1424. % 
Abroma augustum. Salish. parad. lond. 102; absque icone. - 
Abroma Whelevi. Retz. obs. bot. 5.27. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1425, 
Abroma fastuosum. Jacq. hort. vindob. 3. 3. t. 1; (non aliorum). 
Spe 
petiolis longis; inferiora angulis 5-7 profundis nervisque totidem primariis, 
superiora minora angulis sepius quinque supernis, ad basin bilobato-rotun- 
data. Panicule breves ramulorum, superiorum in axillis positorum caulisque 
terminales, floribus brunneo-purpurascentibus: bractexe 2 anguste acuminate 
ad basin pedunculi communis panicularum, alie 4 involucrorum instar ad 
bases divisionum. Lamarck loc. cit. (ex gallico versum.) .- 
~ % 
Axsroma was formerly included in the same genus with 
the Chocolate-Tree (THrosroma Cacao) ; but has been since 
detached, and we believe consists as yet of only two re- 
corded species, the subject of this article and fastuosum, 
the latter found in New South Wales and the Moluccas, 
and distinguished by the long prickly stalks and elongated 
taper-pointed angles of the summit of the capsule; in augus- 
tum the stalks are smooth and the top-corners of the capsule 
short-pointed. 
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