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CALOTHAMNUS villosa. 
Villous Calothamnus. 
POLYADELPHIA ICOSANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Myrtacex, 
CALOTHAMNUS Labillardière, — Staminum phalanges (4-5) petalis 
Opposite: (aliquee nunc connate v. steriles). Anihere basi inserte integer- 
rims. Capsula 3-locularis polysperma, connata et inclusa calycis tubo 
incrassato basi adnato (ramo). Brown in Hort. Kew. iv. 417. 
C. villosa; floribus 5-fidis, phalangibus distinctis æqualibus polyandris, foliis 
` adultis fructibusque villosis. Brown l. c. Link. enum. 2. 274. Spreng. 
syst. 3. 338. ; 
^c Frutex humilis, compactus. Rami teretes, cicatrizati, hirti. Folia fit- 
Jormia, villosa, densissimè imbricata: Flores sessiles, congesti. Ovarium 
subrotundum, calyxque albo villosa. . Petala subrotunda, Tubra, ciliata. 
Staminum phalanges polyandri, atrosanguinei, petalis multoties longiores. 
A native of the south-west coast of New Holland, where 
seeds were collected and sent to the Royal Garden at 
Kew, in 1803, by Mr. Peter Good. It is a fine hardy 
greenhouse plant, producing its rich crimson flowers in 
August and September. It grows well, but slowly, in peat, 
loam, and sand; and young cuttings root pretty freely in 
sand, under a bell glass, care being taken to keep the 
inside of the glass dry. 
Calothamnus is beautifully distinguished from Melaleuca 
by having its anthers attached to the filament by their 
base, and not by their middle; and from Beaufortia by the 
1 of the anthers being entire, not bifid with deciduous 
obes. 
Our drawing was made at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, in 
August 1825. | 
