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BABINGTONIA Camphorosmi 



Camphorwort Babingtonia 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Myrtacejj:, § Leptospermeje. 



BABINGTONIA. Flores cymoso-racemosi terminates. Calyx tubo 

 turbinato, cum ovario connato ; limbo supero quinquefido persistente. Corolla: 

 petala 5, calycis fauci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, sessilia, orbiculata. 

 Stamina 15, ternatim sepalis opposita, iisdem breviora ; filamenta filiformia, 

 libera ; antherce didymse, subrotundee, innatae, apice poro dehiscentes. Ova- 

 rium inferum, 3-loculare ; placentis liberis ascendentibus multiovulatis. 

 Stylus filiformis ex ipsa placenta ortus, per ovarii verticis foramen protrusus, 



obsolete trilobus. Capsula (vertice perforata). Frutices Nova Hollandice 



occidentalis ; foliis opposite nervosis ; floribus in cymulas racemosas ramos 

 terminantes dispositis. 



Babingtonia Camphorosmse. . 



Baeckea Camphorosmae. Endlicher in HugeT s Enumeratio, p . 51. Botanical 



Register, 1841, misc. 140. 



Among the many curious plants made known to Botanists 

 by the discoveries in the Swan River and adjacent colonies, 

 some of the most interesting occur in the Myrtaceous order, 

 to which a variety and extent have thus been given which 

 could not have been anticipated. We now find in this great 

 natural assemblage every variety of habit, except the herba- 

 ceous ; tiny shrubs looking like heather, and monstrous trees 

 which form the pillars of the wilderness ; aromatic truits and 

 hard woody seed-vessels ; a most complicated organization as 

 in the Pomegranate, and great simplicity of fructification as 

 in the Fringe Myrtles. Individual parts too have their own 

 extensive variations, seeds, placenta, stamens and anthers, 

 calyx, corolla and bracts, even the foliage itself, form a large 

 field of study for the investigator of comparative organization. 



The plant before us, in the eye of the gardener, is merely 

 a pretty shrub, rendering the greenhouse gay in autumn and 

 winter ; but to the Botanist it presents some most remarkable 



