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* HYPOCALYMMA robustum. 

 Larger Peach Myj'tle. 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . 



Nat. ord. Myrtace^e. 



HYPOCALYMMA. Flores axillares, capitati. Calyx tubo campanu- 

 lato, cum ovario connato, limbo supera quinquepartito. ! Corolla petala 5, 

 calycis fauce inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, breviter unguiculata, prbiculata. 

 Stamina 20-30; cum petalis inserta, iisdem longibra ; filamenta filiforma sub- 

 ulata; anthera biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum, 

 biloculare (|--biloculare); loculis multi-ovulatis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma ca- 



pitatum (simplex) . Fructus Frutices N. Hollandice austro-oc- 



cidentalis, foliis oppositis exstipulatis, linearilanceolatis, mucronatis, floribus 

 axillaribus sessilibus v. brevissime pedicellatis capitatis scarioso-bracteolatis, 

 roseis v. persicinis. Endl. Genera Plantarum, no. 6306. 



H. robustum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronatis, floribus axillaribus brevis- 

 sime pedicellatis, capitulis submultifloris. Endl. e-Aum. plant. 50. 



This is one of those beautiful little Myrtaceous plants 

 peculiar to the South-west of New Holland, which might be 

 easily mistaken for small Almond or Peach bushes, so much 

 are the flowers like them, and so seldom do we find bright 

 rosy blossoms among the Myrtles. 



It is a native of the Swan River Colony, and has been 

 raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. of Exeter. The 

 leaves when bruised smell very agreeably of lemon. 



It is a greenhouse plant, and requires to be potted in a 

 compost consisting of loam and heath-mould, with a small 

 portion of silver sand. The pot must be well drained, so as 

 to allow all noxious matter to pass off. Water should be freely 



* From vrro under, and KaXvfifxa a veil, in allusion we presume to the 

 bracts that .veil the calyx from below. 



