Tas. 4246. 
FRIESIA pepuNcCULARIS. 
Jointed-pedicelled Friesia. 
Nat. Ord. ELzocarre®.—DopEcANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Pet. 4 apice triloba. Anthere 12 cordato- 
oblong, acuminate, apice dehiscentes. Bacca sicca substipitata, indehiscens, 
2—4-sulca, 2—4-locularis, loculis dispermis. DC. 
Friesia peduncularis. 
Friesta peduncularis. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p.520. Hook. in Journ. of Bot. 
p. 250. 
ELxocarpus peduncularis. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p.15. ¢. 155. 
An elegant shrub, from three to six feet high, with something 
of Myrtle-like habit, as seen in our gardens, and with copious, 
delicate, drooping flowers on pendent stalks. It is a native of 
Van Diemen’s Land, and requires a cool frame or greenhouse for 
its successful cultivation. It is not improbable that near the 
coasts of the middle and south of England, this pretty plant 
may be found to brave the winters in the open air. Only one 
species is known: the Friesia racemosa of All. Cunningham 
(from New Zealand) being, as long ago correctly indicated by 
Vahl, a true Eleocarpus. The genus was named by De Candolle 
in compliment to Elias Fries, Professor of Botany in the Uni- 
versity of Lund, and author of various Cryptogamic works, and 
other publications relating to the Flora of Sweden. 
Descr. A small shrub, with erect, brown Jranches, green in 
the young state, everywhere, as well as the foliage, glabrous. 
Leaves opposite, rarely ternate, lanceolate, acuminated, coarsely 
serrated, penninerved ; from the axil of the branches are leaf- 
buds; and from these leaf-buds the peduncles spring about an 
ch long, slender, pendent, one or two from each bud, articulated 
below the flower, at length, in fruit, erect. Flowers pendent, 
solitary on each peduncle. Calyx deeply four-partite, deciduous ; 
segments ovate, acute, pale green. Petals four, erecto-patent, 
longer than the calyx, broadly obovate, three-lobed, white with 
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