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4256. 
LESCHENAULTIA spienpens. 
Splendid scarlet-flowered Leschenaultia. 
Nat. Ord. GoopENovie#.—PENTANDRIA MonoeyYnta. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovario adnatus, lobis 5 lineari-subulatis. Corolla 
tubo longitudinaliter fisso, limbo subbilabiato, lobis subserratis. 4nthere sub- 
anthesi coherentes. Pollinis granula spherulis 4 coalitis composita. Capsula 
prismatica bilocularis 4-valvis, valvis oppositis medio septiferis. Semina nucu- 
mentacea.—Frutices, varius herbe, omnes e Nova Hollandia, glabri. Folia alterna 
angusta integerrima. Flores azillares v. terminales v. oppositifolii subsolitarii 
pedicellati. DC. 
LescHENAULTIA splendens ; suffruticosa erecta ramosissima, foliis subflexuosis 
filiformibus compressis apiculatis patentibus, calycibus ebracteatis, corymbis 
3—5-floris, (floribus nunc subsolitariis), calyce ebracteato, corolle coccinese 
tubo elongato intus inferne hirsuto, reliquo glabro, segmentis cuneatis 
patentibus subeequalibus bifidis cum mucrone tubum subequantibus. 
8. stricta ; floribus plerisque solitariis, corolla intensius coccinex laciniis angus- 
tioribus, ramis magis virgatis. 
The splendid colour of the flowers of this plant is only to be 
compared with that of the Verbena Melindres. Seeds of it were 
sent to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., by Mr. James Drum- 
mond, and those excellent cultivators have succeeded in rearing 
flowering plants in their Nursery at Exeter, and of two varieties : 
one which we consider the type of the species, with broader 
segments to the corolla, and flowers in a corymb ; the other with — 
nearly, but by no means constantly, solitary flowers, and broader 
segments to the corolla, which, moreover, is of a deeper, but not 
so bright a scarlet. In the colour of the blossoms this species 
approaches the well-known Z. formosa; but that has an orange 
hue, and the two anterior segments of the corolla are small and 
acute, and the larger segments are bent back on the short tube. 
In the foliage, and in the general structure and size of the 
corolla, indeed, our plants resemble the Z. d:/oba, but the bright 
blue flowers of the latter, the shorter tube, and much more 
hairy corolla will distinguish it from that ; while from JZ. laricina 
of Dr. Lindley, it may be recognized by the leaves by no means 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1846. 
