Tas. 4912. 
CORREA carpINALIs. 
Scarlet-flowered Correa. 
Nat. Ord. Drosme#.—Octanpria Monoeynta. 
_ Ger. Char. Calye 4-dentatus, persistens. Petala 4, basi subconniventia aut 
in tubum longe coalita. Stamina 8, sub disco hypogyno 8-glanduloso inserta.- 
Ovarium 8-sulcatum. Stylus 1, persistens. Capsula 4-cocca, loculis truncatis 
compressis.  Semina in loculis 2-83 nitida intus adfixa, cotyledonibus ovalibus 
extus convexis.—Frutices ; foliis oppositis, integris, pube sguamosa, Hippophaes 
more, obtectis ; pedicellis unifloris. De Cand. 
Corre cardinalis ; ramis gracilibus, ramulis foliisque utrinque pube fasciculata 
pallide ferruginea instructis, foliis remotis subuncialibus brevi-petiolatis 
patentibus v. reflexis elliptico-lanceolatis obtusiusculis integerrimis margine 
recurvis supra viridibus opacis subtus pallidis nervis obsoletis, pedicellis 
elongatis gracillimis folio longioribus unifloris apice bibracteatis, bracteis 
folio conformibus sed duplo minoribus, floribus nutantibus, calyce hemi- 
spherico truncato obsoleto 4-dentato rufescente-tomentoso, corolla pubes- 
centi-tomentosz tubo subclavato (coccineo), limbo 5-fido luteo lobis erectis 
acutis, staminibus 8 sublonge exsertis. 
Correa cardinalis. Muell. in Herb. nostr. cum MS. 
Raised from Australian seeds by Messrs. Veitch, of the Nur- 
series of Exeter and Chelsea, where the plant forms a handsome 
bush two to three feet high, with graceful, slender branches, 
leaves full dark green above, pale and whitish beneath, all the 
younger branches bearing drooping flowers an inch and an inch 
and a quarter long, of a rich scarlet colour, the segments or lobes 
of the limb only yellow. ‘The filaments of the stamens again are 
exserted more than a quarter of an inch beyond the erect limb. 
We hardly know a more desirable greenhouse plant, flowering as 
it does in the beginning of March. Our Herbarium shows the 
plant to be identical with the Correa cardinalis of Dr. Ferdinand 
Mueller (now on the Exploring Expedition in North-west Aus- 
tralia), and which he discovered “about the Latrobe River, in 
_ Sandy, bushy places of the hills, and in the sterile plain of Port 
Albert, Gipps’ Land, Colony of Victoria, South Australia.” It is 
quite distinct from any hitherto published species. 
APRIL Ist, 1856. 
