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CysTANTHE SPRENGELIOIDES. SpPRENGELIA- 
LIKE CYSTANTHE. 
KKK KKK KKK KEE KEKE RKEKEE 
Class and Order. 
PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—EpacripEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx foliaceus. Corolla clausa, calyptreformis, trans- 
versim dehiscens, basi truncata persistenti. Stamina hypo- 
gyna, persistentia. Sguamule nulle hypogyne. Capsula 
placentis ab apice columne centralis pendulis, solutis.— 
Frutex habitu Sprengelie, Ponceletiz, et Cosmeliz, nisi 
quod rami dum denudati annulati sunt. Br. 
Specific Name and Synonym. 
CysTantuE * sprengelzoides. 
CystanTHE sprengelioides. Brown Prodr. 1, 555. 
This curious shrub was discovered by Mr. Brown in Van 
Diemen’s Land. The specimen described (now three feet 
and a half high, and growing freely) was raised in 1836 at 
the Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds obligingly 
communicated by N. B. Warp, Esq., London, in the au- 
tumn before. I have no means of ascertaining to which of 
the varieties mentioned by Mr. Brown it belongs. ae 
Descr. Shrub and its branches erect, glabrous, rigid. 
Leaves crowded, sessile, stem-clasping, ovate, acuminate, — 
rigid, mucronate, reflected, serrulate, shining, persisting, — 
many-nerved, nerves diaphanous. Flowers axillary, soli- 
. 
* From «ers, a bladder, and avbos a flower ; from the crn . 
appearance of the flower-bud , while the calypire-form corolla is still a : 
ed to it. 
