1917 
* STACKHOUSIA monógyna. 0 
Pink-tpped‘ Stackhousia. A 
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"| PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nats ord. Srackmouslacka. 4 
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STACKHOUSIA. Smi h. Genus solum adhue notum în ordine. 
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S. monogyna ; foliis linelri-Madfolatis lanceolatisque, spicis qr elon- 
gatis apice acută conicis, corolla laciniis acutatis, staminibus inequalibus, 
coccis oblongis to-aredlatis, bracteis brevissimis membranaceis. 
S. monogyna. Lab, Nov. Holl. 154. 104. ¡A 
„Planta herbacea, perennis, pedalis ‚et ultra; ole folioso, ramoso, sub- 
olia lineari-lanceolata, et lanceolata, 
decumbente, glaberrimo, striato; - | 
nullo modo carnosa, basi acuminata. Spice dense, semper apice roseo conico 
acuto, nunc per luxuriem foliis quibusdam intermixte, post anthesin valdè 
elongate. Bracte®@ acuminate, membranacee, calyce breviores. Calyx 
5-fidus, campanulatus, corolla multoties brevior ; tubo carnoso, discum ad- 
herentem gerente, laciniis acuminatis. Corolla pseudo-monopetala, petalis 
¡in tubum cylindraceum coneretis basi liberis, limbo plano acutato. Stamina 
5, inequilonga, tubo breviora, in fauce calycis inserta. extra discum. Ova- 
. rium £rilobum, monostylum, stigmatibus-tribus linearibus erectis, tubo corolla 
multà brevioribus vix calycem longitudine superantibus. È 
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er "T "T repre m — 
t A pretty neat herbaceoús pl int, native of Van Diemen's 
“Land, whence its seeds were.sent by Mr. Ps ii Backhouse 
to his brothers at York, where the first time 
flowered for 
in April of the present year. Ihave wild specimens of it 
collected in/the same island by Mr. Gunn (gps others. 
e7 of A very small 
It is interesting as forming the ‘ty 
| ting which the 
natural order bearing its own name, 
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# So‘hained in honour of the late John Stéikljouse, Esq. F.L.S; of Pen- 
darvis in Cornwall, author of a splendid work on submarine plants, entitled 
“ Nereis Britannica,” and of some botanical illustrations of Theophrastus.— 
Smith. é 
