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Tas. 4392. 
BURTONIA punicHeua. 
Beautiful Burtonia. 
Nat. Ord. Lrauminos#.—Dercanpria MoNnoGynia. 
_ Gen. Char, Calyx profunde 5-fidus. Petala 5 decidua, longitudine subequalia, 
2 carinalia, dorso concreta. Ovarium dispermum. Stylus subulatus, basi dila- 
tatus. Stigma obtusum imberbe. Legumen subrotundum, modice ventrieosum, 
Strophiola seminis nulla—Suffrutices Australasici. Foliola aut folia subulata. 
Rami sepe puberuli. Pedicelli solitarii. DC. 
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Burronta pulchella ; ramis levibus apice puberulis mox glabris, foliolis Jevibus 
glabris angustissime linearibus obtuse mucronatis rectis margine revolutis, 
pedunculis axillaribus folio brevioribus calyeem aquantibus basi medioque 
2-bracteolatis, calycis lobis margine intus pilosiusculis. Metsu. 
Burronra pulchella. Meisn. in Pl. Preiss. p. 41. 
Messrs. Lucombe and Pince have had the good fortune to 
raise three beautiful species of Burtonia, from Mr. Drummond’s 
Swan River seeds. One is the Burtonia conferta, D.C., figured 
in Bot. Reg. t. 1600: a second is the charming species here 
represented : the third is B. villosa, Meisn., which, as we shall 
have the opportunity of showing, is neither inferior in size nor in 
richness of colour in the flowers to the present one. B. pulchella 
forms a graceful shrub, about two feet high, with slender branches, 
heath-like leaves, and the flowers copious and large, terminating 
the ramifications. It flowers during the spring and summer 
months. : 
Descr. A small shrub, with glabrous slender stems; the 
young ones herbaceous and slightly downy. Leaves sessile, 
and scattered, trifoliate; folioles narrow-linear, obtuse, with a 
curved rather broad mucro, the margins revolute, smooth and 
glabrous.  Peduncles solitary from the axils of the superior 
leaves, but so copious from the uppermost ones that the flowers 
conceal the foliage, and the inflorescence may be said to be a 
leafy spike: each peduncle is shorter than the leaf, bearing at 
the base, and near the middle, a pair of small appressed ovate 
bracts. Calyx about as long as the peduncle, campanulate, 
AUGusT lst, 1848. 
