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efformantibus. Coxo\\v\dduniformes,flavce. Stigmata trun- cato-dilatata. Semina aucipitia. Receptaculimi convevum. Brown.
Ammobium at a turn, Brown MSS.
An undescribed genus belonging to the same tribe with Gnaphalium, discovered by Robert Brown, Esq., in 1804, growing plentifully, near the shores of Port Hunter (or the Coal River), in New South Wales, and named by him from its growing in sand.
Bot. Mag. 2459 (1824).
��Entel^ea arborescens. polyandria monogvnia.
Cat. 4 — 5-phyllus. Petala 4. Stamina indefinita, uni- formia, antheris subrotundis, incumbentibus. Stigma den- ticulatum. Capsula sphseroidea, echinata, sex locularis, semi-sexvalvis, polysperma. — Arbor [parva, ligno tevissimo spongioso, Solander) pube stellari {in pagina superior e folii adulti parciore et subsimplici) tomentosa. Eolia cor- data, angulata, duplicato-crenata, b-nervia, stipulis per- sistentibus, parvis, foliaceis. Umbellse simplices, terminates, pedunculate, involucro polyphyllo, brevi,. pedicellis ebrac- teatis.
Elores atbi, raro b-Jidi ; calyce deciduo, foliolis aristatis, gemma (alabastro) quadricorni ; petalis Jlaccidis, apice sub- laceris, staminibus corolla brevioribus, subtorulosis, omnibus antheriferis ; stylo angidato, stigmate umbilicato, margine denticulato. Capsularum setae longce, rigida* opacce, pubes- cent es, spinula pellucida acuta recta terminate. Semina in singula loculo biseriata, parva, obovata; albumine carnoso, semini conformi ; embryone recto, at bo, Ion gitu dine fere albu minis ; cotyledonibus planis, cordatis.
Ord. Nat. Inter Tiliaceas, proximum genus Sparmannia, quacum habitu, inflorescentia, antheris, stigmate, capsula-
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