Tas. 4651. 
GUICHEN OTIA MACRANTHA. 
,’ 
Large-flowered Guichenotia. 
Nat. Ord. LASIOPETALEE®.—PENTANDRIA MonoeGyNia. 
Gen. Char. Inflorescentia axillaris, racemosa. Bracteola hypocalycina per- 
sistens, 3-partita. Calyx petaloideus, persistens, campanulatus, quinquepartitus ; 
laciniis wstivatione valvatis, dorso demum tricostatis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, 
calycis laciniis alterna, minima, squameformia. Stamina 5, hypogyna, petalis 
opposita; filamenta subulata; anthere extrorse, biloculares, lineari-lanceolate, 
dorso insert, loculis latere utrinque rima longitudinal dehiscentibus. Ovarium 
sessile, quinqueloculare, loculis intus densissime tomentosis. Ovuda in loculis 5, 
angulo centrali subbiseriatim inserta, adscendentia. Stylus filiformis, brevis ; 
stigma simplex. Fructus . . ..—Frutex canescens, in Nova Hollandia occidentali 
indigenus ; foliis brevissime petiolatis, ternato-verticillatis, lineari-lanceolatis, pen- 
ninerviis, integerrimis, margine revolutis, supra pubescentibus, subtus dense griseo- 
tomentosis, stipulis nullis. Endl. - 
elongatis 2-3-floris, bracteis 2-3 lineari- 
capsulis intus glabriusculis. Twrezan. 
Moscov. v. 19. No.1. p. 500. Steetz 
GuIcHENOTIA macrantha ; pedunculis 
bus alternis a flore remotiusculis, 
GUICHENOTIA macrantha. Turezan. Act. Soe. 
in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. v. 2. p. 362. 
A singular-looking, rather than beautiful, hoary shrub, with 
large purplish flowers, at first sight not unlike those of some 
Solanum ; native of Swan River, whence seeds have been sent by 
Mr. Drummond to Kew, and reared in 1847. Our first flowers 
appeared in March, 1852, in an ordinary greenhouse. ‘The genus 
Guichenotia, s0 named by M. Gay in compliment to the gardener 
of M. Baudin’s expedition, M. Antoine Guichenot, was founded 
upon the G. ledifolia, equally with this an inhabitant of the 
Swan River district, and is described by Mr. Turezaninow from — 
Mr. Drummond’s dried specimens. — It is an extremely distinct 
species. | 
Dies. The shrub is with us two and a half feet high, erect, 
branched. Branches terete, clothed with stellated down. Leaves + 
downy, whorled in threes, linear-oblong, 
JUNE Ist, 1852, 
on very short petioles, 
