1600 





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BURTONIA* conferta. 





Clustered Burtonia. 





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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. ord. Leguminos^ Juss. 



system of 



BURTONIA R. Br.-Calyx profundi 5-fidus. Petala 5 decidua, 

 longitudine subeequalia, 2 carinalia dorso concrete. Ova num d»pa™"£- 

 Stylus subulatus, basi dilate*. Stigma obtusum, , imberbe. Legumenm*- 

 rotundum, modice ventricosum. Strophiola semmis nulla. Po j- pl i; 



Australasici. Foliola aut folia su&utota. Rami «ep* puberuli. Fedicein 

 solitarii. De Cand. prodr. 2. 106. 



Suffrutices 



con/crto; foliis simplicibus confertissimis linean-suoi 



volutis ramisque glabris. De Cand. I. c. 



Frutex alaberrimus, ramis ascendentibus, angulatis. 



Folia simplicia, 



lacea ; vexillum (raweriHi subreflexum, emarginatum ™*»2ric7a« • 

 ate oMb^., ocHte, *»**•«/«, cum carina parallel*, basinon ««*«£'*' 

 petala caring opfce ian^m^a, connate, cr vix nisi vi *f™**- ^XZum] 

 subvqualia, declinata ; anther* o6fai*«. Ovarium obovatum, v. oblongum, 



sensvm 



We believe the figure now given is the £*** ^ 



ppeared of any species of the 



genus Burtonia 



south-west coast of New Holland, which flowered in the 

 Nursery of Mr. Knight in the King's Koad, «j*»* 

 Another species is slid to have been growing ***» » 

 1 803 : but we have never met with it in the Gardens ot this 



country 



1 !■■■ ■■! ■ I ■!!_ .U — — _„ -^p-^— _^^^^^ M ^^^^^ t _^ I 



• So oaHed by D, Brown, \~tf*£, ^£5^ «X 

 collector for the Kew Garden, who died n New nouai , 

 home a considerable number of plants to this country. 





