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Quadria heterophylla. Flor. Peruv. et Chil. I, p. 63, t 99,/. b.

Hab. In sylvis et ad radices montium Chilensium. (v. s. in Herb. Banks, a Dombey.J

��23. BELLENDENA.

Char. Gen. Calyx tetraphyllus, regularis, patens. Sta- mina hypogyna. Glandulce nullae hypogynae. Ovarium dispermum. Stigma simplex. Samara? aptera, 1 — 2- sperma.

Habitus. Frutex glaberrimus. Folia sparsa, plana, apice trifida. Spica racemosa, terminalis ; Jloribus spar sis, rarb geminatis. Calyx albus citb deciduus. Ovarium cum pedicello suo articulatum. Samara color ata margine alter o sulcato.

This genus is named in honour of John Bellenden Ker, Esq., whose botanical merits are established by an excellent Essay on Ensatm, published in the ' Annals of Botany/ and by his elaborate disquisitions on the Genera of that and other monocotyledonous families, in the latter volumes of the ' Botanical Magazine.'

Bellendena montana.

Hab. In Insula Diemen : in summis montibus. (ubi v. v.)

24. ANADENIA.

Char. Gen. Calyx tetraphyllus, apicibus concavis sta- miniferis. AntJierce immersse. Glandulce nullae hypogynse. Ovarium dispermum. Stigma conicum. Follicidus unilo- culars, abortione monospermus. Semen apterum.

Habitus. Frutices. (Grevilleis affines .-) pube dum adsit medio affixd. Folia pinnatifida v. lobata, circumscriptione cuneiformia. S picas terminates, v. later ales, Jloribus cw geminatis, paribus unibracteatis, summis quandoquc praco- cioribus !

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