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LESCHENAULTIA biloba 



Large Blue Leschenaultia . 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Goodeniace^e. 



LESCHENAULTIA. B Brown. Calyx tabo oblongo v. lineari, cum 

 ovario connato, limbi superi quinquefidi laciniis sequalibus. Corolla supera, 

 tubulosa, postice fissa, limbi quinquepartiti laciniis subaequalibus, conniven- 

 tibus v* inaequalibus, uni-bilabiatis, labii superioris connatis v. distinctis, om- 

 nibus alatis, aestivatione induplicatis . Stamina 5, cum corolla inserta ; fila- 

 menta libera ; antherae subanthesi cohserentes. Ovarium inferum, biloculare. 



Ovula juxta dissepimentum utrinque biseriata Stylus simplex ; 



stigma in fundo indusii horizontaliter bilabiati obsoletura. Capsula prisma- 

 tica, bilocularis, quadrivalvis, valvis oppositis medio septiferis. Semina cubica 



v. cylindracea, nucamentacea. Embryo Fruticuli ericoidei, in 



Nova Hollandia indigent, rarius herbse ; foliis angustis, integerrimis, floribus 

 axillaribus v. terminalibus, subsolitariis, rubris, pollinis granulu e sphcerulis 

 quatuor coalitis compositis. Endlicher, 



L. biloba ; foliis linearibus obtusis, floribus in corymbo paucifloro laxe aggre- 

 gates, sepalis tubo corollse sequalibus, corolla extus glabra intus stuposa 

 laciniis cuneatis alte bilobis mucrone interjecto, filamentis glabris. 



L. bijoba. Lindley Appendix Bot. Reg. 1839, p. xxvii. 



L. grandiflora. DeCand. Prodr. 7. 519. 





Few plants have, from the report of travellers, excited 

 more interest than this ; for the beauty of the old Lesche- 

 naultias has rendered them universal favourites, and a new 

 species of the genus with large blue flowers could not fail to 

 be still more ornamental. The plant in question is now laid 

 before the readers of the Botanical Register, and its merits 

 can scarcely be said to have been exaggerated ; for what can 

 be more lovely than its deep azure flowers on so delicate and 

 heath-like a foliage. If it should prove to be as profuse a 

 bloomer as the others, it will be one of the best species re- 

 cently acquired for gardens. If it should not, we would 

 advise those who are in correspondence with Western Aus- 

 tralia not to despair ; because there are other species, one too 

 with blue flowers, the L. grandiflora of the Sketch of the 



