Tas. 4265. 
LESCHENAULTIA arcvata. 
Drooping Leschenaultia, 
Nat. Ord. GoopENOVIEZ.—PENTANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (vide supra, Tas. 4256.) 
LESCHENAULTIA arcuata ; suffruticosa, ramosissima, ramis primariis divaricatis 
subarcuatis, foliis sparsis filiformibus acutis, floribus in ramulos numerosis- 
«Simos terminalibus, calyce ebracteolato, laciniis oblongis acutis, corolla 
(generis) magn laciniis 3 latissimis patentibus bifidis, 2 superioribus 
minoribus integris stamina stylumque includentibus, tubo brevi ventricoso, 
intus hinc sericeo. 
LESCHENAULTIA arcuata. De Vriese in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. p.416. 
A singular and truly handsome species of Leschenaultia, ex- 
ceedingly different from every other known one, having copious, 
spreading, decurved branches, with innumerable branchlets, almost 
every one of which is terminated with a large red-purple and 
yellow flower. Raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., at 
their extensive Nursery, Exeter, from Swan River seeds, sent by 
by Mr. Drummond. It is a greenhouse plant, and noble samples 
were communicated by the cultivator, from which our figure 1s 
made. The flowers have a good deal the appearance of those of 
the large shrubby Polygale of South Africa, but here they are 
exceedingly numerous upon a small plant. Flowers in August. 
Mr. Drummond has long ago sent home copious dried specimens 
of the species, 
Descr. A low, prostrate, half-shrubby plant, with the main 
branches spreading and curved downward (whence the specific 
name), striated; éranchlets raore erect, but flexuose. Leaves 
scattered, patent, small, filiform, acute. Flowers large, on the 
humerous small branches, terminal, solitary. Ca/yz-sepals ob- 
long, acute, concave. Corolla with the tude very short, ventricose 
on one side, cleft on the opposite one, silky within ; /imé two- 
lipped ; segments five, three spreading, large, broadly obcordate, 
bifid and mucronate, sulphur-yellow, the wings very wide; two 
NOVEMBER lst, 1846. 
