Tab. 419(>. 



SCLEVOLA ATTENUATA, 



Attenuated-leaved Sccevola. 



























Nat. Ord. Gtoodenovieje. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Cal. tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-partitus aut 5-dentatus, rarius 

 subinteger. Corolla hinc longitudinabter fissa genitalia exserens, limbo inde 

 secundo 5-partito, lobis alatis subconformibus. Antherte Mberse. Stigmath in- 

 dusium fere in omnibus ciliatum. Brupa caraosa aut exsucca coronata 1-4-locu- 

 laris, loculis 1-spennis. — Frutices suffnttices aut Herbae perennes in Australasia, 

 rarius in India, Senegalid aut insulis Caribms habitantes. Foba alterna, rarius 

 opposita, integerrima aut dentata imo subincisa. Spicse aut cymaa dichotomy ex 

 axillis ortte. Flores bibracteati interdum in axillis solitarii. Corolla? ccerulea, 

 alba, rarius lutescentes. Cor. lobi alati stepe jimbriati, tubus intus xdlhsus, faux 

 fimbrias apice capitellas gerens. Be Cand. 



Sc^vola attenuata; fruticosa erecta pilosa, fobis lanceolatis dentatis, bracteis 

 subtendentibus integerrimis, corollis intus hirsutis, marginibus supra nudis, 

 stybs villosissimis. Br. 



Scjsvola attenuata. Brown, Prodr. Nov. Roll. p. 583. Be Cand. Prodr. v. vii. 

 p. 508. Spreng. Sysi. Veget. v. 1. p. 752. Boem. et Sch. Syst. Veget.p. 163. 



A shrubby plant, a native of south-west Australia, first detected 

 and described by Mr. Brown, possessing little beauty in its mode 

 of growth or foliage, but in June and July bearing rather copious 

 spikes of bright, but light, blue flowers, which then give it a very 

 pretty appearance. Our plant was reared from seeds sent by Mr. 

 Drummond from Swan River, and probably gathered to the 

 southward of that colony, toward King George's Sound. It is cul- 

 tivated in good loam and treated as a greenhouse plant, fully ex^ 

 posed to the open air and rains in the summer, and housed m a 

 cool greenhouse during winter. It may be increased by cuttings. 



Descr. Shrub one and a half to two feet high ; the lower part 

 woody, the upper and younger branches herbaceous, often tinged 

 with brown, terete, hairy. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, somewhat 

 rigid and fleshy, much tapering at the base, with a long dilated 

 grooved petiole, which is still more dilated and gibboosbelow at 

 the point of insertion, hairy, especially at the margin, with a tew 

 almost parallel veins, the margin entire, serrated. Spike termi- 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1845. 



