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STYPANDRA PROPINQUA. SLENDER, AZURE- 
FLOWERED STYPANDRA. 
SEER EK KEKE EEE EERE 
Class and Order. 
HexanpriA Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—AspPHopELEZ. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium 6-partitum, equale, patens, deciduum. Sta- 
mina 6. Filamenta infra attenuata, curvata, glabra, supra 
stuposo-barbata. Anthere basi emarginate insert. Ova- 
rium loculis polyspermis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma sim- 
plex. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis. Semina pauca, ovalia, 
levia umbilico nudo. Embryo rectus. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Srypanpra* propingua ; glaucescens, foliis omnibus dis- 
tinctis remotiusculis strictis plis minisve aversis: ba- 
seos marginibus equaliter rectis. 
Stypanpra propinqua. All. Cunn. MSS. 
A handsome plant, differing from S. glauca of Mr. Brown, 
to which it is very closely allied, in being altogether of more 
slender habit, with narrower leaves, of which the upper 
Surface is as frequently presented to the stem of the plant, 
as turned from it, both margins at the base being alike 
straight, and not as in S. glauca, where one edge, above 
the sheathing of the leaf, is uniformly bent back. Itisa 
native of the interior of New South Wales, and was origi- 
nally detected in 1822, growing in large tufts among sand- 
Stone rocks, in the broken country on the north of the set- 
tlement of Bathurst. : F 
rom 
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t * From ervmn, tow, and arp, a male, so named from the dense tuft of hairs 
at the upper part of the filament. 
