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Class and Order.

Generic Character. Cor. 1-petala. Stam. apicibus concavis corollæ immersa. Squamulæ hypogynæ. Folliculus ligneus, 2-locularis: loculis 1-spermis; dissepimento libero, bifido. Amentum flosculorum paribus tribracteatis. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms.

latifolia; foliis obovato-oblongis spinuloso-ser- ratis basi acutis subtus costatis reticulatis cinereo- tomentosis: corrollæ unguibus sericeis: laminis glabri caule fruticoso. Brown in Lin. Soc. Transac. 10. p. 208. Prodr. 394. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 217. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 3. p. 441 Robur. Cavan. ic. 6. p. 29. t. 543. Dilleniæfolia. Knight et Salisb. Prot. 113. uncigera. Knight et Salisb. Prot. 112.

describes this shrub as a tree thirty feet high, in which he is followed by Mr. ; but we are informed by Mr., in his Prodomus, that it is only a low shrub, growing plentifully in the marshes near Sidney, New South Wales. This mistake respecting its height originated with Mr., whose observations, however, with regard to altitude, texture, and utility of its timber, belong, Mr. observes, to serrata.

At the time of publication of Hortus Kew- ensis it appears not to have flowered in this country. In the fine conservatory belonging to at Haringay House, where our drawing was taken, it flowered last August.