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STENANTHERA pinifolia, 
Fir-leaved Stenanthera. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. 
Nat, ord. Eracrinez. Brown prodr. 535. Sect. I. Germinis loculi 
monospermi. Pericarpium clausum, raro capsulare (?) 
STENANTHERA. Cal. 5-partitus, multibracteatus, persistens, Cor. 
hypogyna monopetala, tubulosa, tubo calyce duplo longiore, ventricoso,- 
intüs absque fasciculis villorum; limbo 5-diviso, brevi, patenti, semibare 
bato. РИ, laciniis alterna, epipetala, inclusa, carnosa, antheris latiora; 
anth. simplices, receptaculo unico pollinifero, septum completum, rard 
marginatum constituente; indivise, longitudinalitér dehiscentes: pollen 
subglobosum parüm angulatum, Germ. sessile, 5-loc. Stylus 1, Stig. 1. 
Drupa subexsucca, putamine osseo, solido: sem. albuminosa: embryo teres, 
rectus, axilis, dimidio albumine longior. 
Frutex erectus, Fol. alterna, confertissima, acerosa. Flores azillares, 
erecti, tubo coccinea, limbo flavo-virescenti. Discus hypogynus cyathiformis, 
integer, Brown prod. 538. 
Stenanthera pinifolia. Brown loc. cit. 
Bi-tripedalis subprolifero-ramosus, rigidus. Folia undique sparsa, rigida, 
subulata, supra hirtiuscula conveza margine revoluto, infra canescentia, mus 
стопе sphacelato pungente prafiza. ores racemosé aggregati, Bractem 
scariose, pallide, colyoem imbricatim cingentes, exteriores brevissime, ine 
teriores texturd calycis parümque breviores lanceolato-acuminate. Cal. dimidio 
brevior corolla, convoluto-connivens, cuspidatus. Cor. subuncialis intis pilis 
albis subappressis laxitis pubescens, pilis јижа infra apices nudos laciniarum 
in barbam deusatis ; limbus erectus pro $ corolla fissus, laciniis lanceolato-ague 
бита supern? patulis. Fil. alba, plana, lineari-oblonga, duplo breviora limba 
cujus basi inserta, Anth. oblonga, posti? ab apice appense, breviores fila» 
mentis. Stylus capillaris, viridis, erectus, glaber, aqualis tubo : stigma capia 
tellatum, ystulatum : germ. globosum, viride, glabrum, 
This rare and elegant shrub is indigenous in the neigh- 
bourhood of Port Jackson, New South Wales, It has 
not been noticed by any botanist, except by Mr. Brown, in 
the work above cited. We met with it at Messrs. Col. 
villes nursery, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the 
drawing was taken in last June, Cultivated іп the green · 
house. 
The genus belongs to the first of the two sections of 
Epacridew , that which comprehends the genera more nearly 
allied to Sryraeuıa, as distinguished from those nearer to 
Ерасвів, the type of the other section. А simple or one 
geiled anther separates the members of this order at first 
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