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X. A Description of several Species of Plants from New Holland.

By Edward Rudge, Esq. F.R.S. and L.S.

Read April 18, 1809, and January 16, 1810.

Centrolepis cuspidigera.

Monandria Monogynia.

Tab. XII. Fig. 1.

Centrolepis foliis parum pubescentibus: spathis longissime cuspidatis, valde hispidis: paleis emarginatis.

Devauxia Billardieri. Brown Prod. v. 1. 252.

Planta tres ad quatuor pollices longa.

Radix fibrosa.

Scapi plures, erecti, teretes, basi foliis vaginati. Spathæ bivalves, ovatae, longissime cuspidatae, basi concavoe, pilis albidis rigidis hispidae, decern- ad duodecim-florae.

Calyx nullus.

Corolla nulla; Palea unilaterales, tot quot flores, ovato-oblongae, emarginatae.

Stamen. Filamenium filiforme, paled longius, basi pistilli insertum. Anthera cordata, versatilis.

Pistillum. Germcn superum, ovatum; Stylus tripartitus; Stigma acuta, gland ulosa.

Capsula trilocularis; loculis a basi inaequaliter distantibus, monospermis.

Semina