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* CORETHROSTYLIS bracteata. 
Rosy-armed Corethrostylis. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LASYOPETALEX. 
CORETHROSTYLIS, Endl. Inflorescentia cymosa, oppositifolia. 
Bracteole a calyce remote, colorate. Calyx petaloideus, marcescens, ad 
basim quinquepartitus, laciniis,lanceolato-acuminatis, stellato-patentibus, æsti- 
vatione valvatis. Corolla nulla. Stamina 5, hypogyna, calycis laciniis 
alterna; filamenta brevissima, subulata, libera ; anthere extrorsee, bilocu- 
lares, ovoideo-oblongs, medio dorso inserte, loculis apiee intus poro dehi- 
scentibus. Ovarium sessile, triloculare. Ovula in loculis gemina, collate- 
ralia, ex anguli centralis basi adscendentia, extrorsum anatropa. Stylus 
elongatus, pilorum fascieulis retrorsis hispidus, pyramidato-scopeformis, 
Stigma simplex. Capsula calyce emarcido connivente tecta, trilocularis, 
loculieide trivalvis, valvis medio septiferis intus glabris. Semina in loculis 
solitaria, erecta, ovato-oblonga, testa durissima, raphe introrsa filiformi ad- 
nata, umbilicum basilarem, strophiola cupuleformi multipartita cinctum, 
cum chalaza apicali, jungente. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi orthotropus, 
ejusdem fere longitudine, cotyledonibus foliaceis, ovatis, „planis, dorso 
raphen respicientibus, radicula tereti, longa, umbilicum attingente, infera. 
Frutices Nove-Hollandie austro-occidentalis, pilis stellatis consiti ; foliis 
alternis, petiolatis, cordatis, integerrimis v. repando subsinuatis, inflorescentia 
oppositifolia, eymoso-racemosa, bracteis foliaceis, bratteolis sparsis, coloratis, 
alabastris acuminatis, —Endl. gen. no. 5326. 
C. bracteata ; Endl. nov. stirp. mus. Vind. dec. 1. Walper's repert. 1. 337. 
This is one of the most striking of the Swan River 
shrubs, but owing to some difficulty in cultivating it, the 
specimens that have been produced in Europe are very 
inferior to the wild ones. In the latter the bracts are four 
times as large as in the annexed cut, and of the most vivid rose- 
colour, thus rendering the bush indescribably gay; for the 
long loose clusters, adorned by these bracts, are produced in 
multitudes all over the plant. 
* From xopn3po», a broom, in allusion to the singularly bairy style. 
