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LEUCOPOGON* parvifldrus 





Small-flowered Whitebeard. 





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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. EpacridejE R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system of 



Botany , p. 183.) 



LEUCOPOGON. — Ca7y# bibracteatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, 



limbo patente longitudinaliter barbato. Filamenta inclusa. Ovarium 2-5- 



loculare. Drupa baccata v. exsucca, nunc Crustacea. Frutices sapi 



humiles. Folia sparsa, quandoque inter rupto-conferta. Flores spicati, 

 axillares v. terminates. Discus hypogynus cyathiformis, sublobatus, rarb 

 nullus. — R. Br. prodr. 541. 



L. parviflorus ; spicis erectis confertis foliis brevioribus, ovariis 4-locularibus, 

 foliis lanceolatis v. oblongis planis 3-5-veniis, ramulis glabris. 



Styphelia parviflora. Andrews' bot. rep. 287. 



Frutex parvus, sempervirens ; ramulis glabris. Folia plana, glabra, 

 apiculata, fere linearia, v. lanceolata, v. oblonga, basi angustiora, nunc 

 apicem versus denticulata; venis acustriatis 3-5-primordialibus subparal- 

 lelis; costd nulld. Spicse axillares, confer tee, multi/lorce , erect* , foliis 

 breviores. Bractese parvce, acutce. Flores parvi, albi. Ovarium cyatho 

 quinquedentato , plicato, viridi cinctum, 4-loculare. Stylus tubo duplb 

 brevior. 1? 





This species is probably very rare in New Holland ; for 

 Dr. Brown could scarcely have been acquainted with it, or 

 he would not have referred the figure in the Botanist's 

 Repository, which is a tolerable representation of it, to 

 L. lanceolatus, a perfectly distinct species. Mr. Cunningham 

 informs us that he did not meet with it during his long 

 residence in New Holland, although he found the genus 

 in abundance on every coast he visited; thirteen species 

 having been collected in his last voyage alone to Km 

 George's Sound. 



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