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ST1TITELIA longifolia 



Long-learcd Styphelia. 





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PENTANDRIA MOXOGYXL-f. 



STYPHELIA. CaL 5-partitus, bracteis 4 pluribiisvc lexturft 

 calycis. Cor. elonjrato-tu" 



ubulosa; tubo intiis juxta basin fasciculi* 5 vil- 

 lormii : Umbo laciniis revolutis, barbatis. fit. cpipetala, exserta : anlh. 

 simplices. Germinis ,3-locularis locull nionospcnm. Drupa mbexsucca, 

 putamine osseo, solido. 



Trutices erecti v. ascendent e$, ramosi, glabriasculi. Folia sparser, 

 brevissimt petiolata, mueronata. Florea axillares, rwtante* v. diva* icatL, 



speciosi, pedunculis unifloris, raro 2-3 T floris. Squamula* lnpogyn© o, 



distinctly raro connate. Brown, prodr. 5M. 



S. longifolia , foliis elongato-lanceolatis apice attenuatis supra concavius- 



culis margine Iambus, ramulis pubescentibui. Brown, toe. tit. 



Caulis 3-pcdalis, erectus, teres, numerose sed non confertim foliosus, su- 

 peme ramosus, badio-corticatns. Folia 2-unciaIia, erecta, interstiliis pluri- 



muni longiora, rigidissima, angusta, lineari-attenuata, cuspid at a fine pun- 



gente, concava, nervis parallel is dense striata, bast et in brevissimo petiolo 

 villosa. Flores subnut antes, plurimi, virides. Pedunculi uniflori, in rami* 

 superni, axillares, solitarii, breves, villosi, bracteis squamati. CaL her* 

 baceus, rigens, tubuloso-connivcns, acutus, ?iervulosus, infra brcviter cum 

 corolla (qud duplo maghve breviorj conferruminatus. Cor. sesquiuncialis, 

 penna corvina Jere duplo crassior, subdiaphana, extus glabra, intus nisi ubi 

 recondit germen villosa : lacinicc limbi ligulaio-lanccolatrc tubo ? parte bre- 

 viores ; resiliunt luccce sub dchiscentiam nisu elastico, inde in gyros plums re- 

 xolvendcc. Fib corollcc ccqualia, tubum adnato-decurrcntia, ob reeedentcm 

 limbum exserta, conniventia : anth. fuscescentes, a medio dorso appenue 



versatile*, secundec. Germ, conicum, 5-gonum, ban cine turn tquumulia 5 



rrateroidi-conniventibus : stylus capillaceus Jilamentis alitor et plunmum gra- 

 cilior ; stigma capitatum. 



A rare species, and one that has not found a place in the 

 late edition of the Ilortus Ke wen sis, nor been figured in 

 any work: nor had we heard of its being' in any collection, 

 until we met with it in that of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at 

 Hammersmith! where the drawing was taken in March last, 

 from a plant that had been raised from seed. 



Native of New-South -Wales ; found by Mr. Brown in 



the neighbourhood of Port-Jackson. It approaches in the 



colour of the flower to riridiflora, but is very different in 

 the foliage, which in that is obovate-oblong, flat, and about 

 one inch long; not, as in this, tapering from the base up- 

 wards, concave and about two inches long. It is a woody 

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