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Epacris GRANDIFLORA. CRIMSON Epacris, 
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Clafs and Order: 
PENTANDRIA Monoeynitia. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal.imbricatus. Cor, 1-petala, tubulofa. Stam. fauce inferta. 
Germ. cin€lum fquamulis 5. Cap/. 5-locularis, 5-valvis: val- 
' vulis medio feptiferis. Sem. plurima, acerofa, 
Specific Charader and Synonyms. 
EPACRIS grandiflora ; foliis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis pun- — 
gentibus patentibus, corollis cylindricis pendulis: 
| laciniis pluries tubo brevioribus obtufiufculis. 
EPACRIS grandiffora ; fruticofa, foliis ovatis acuminatis mu- 
cronatis recurvatis, floribus axillaribus. Wild. 
Sp. Pl.-1. Pp. Was 
EPACRIS grandiflora ; foliis cordatis pungentibus recurvatis 
petiolatis, floribus pendulis. Smith Exot. Bot. 39. 
EPACRIS (Jongiflora. Cav. Ic. v. 4. p. 25+ te 344+ 
rete 
Discr. Siem fhrubby, woolly, branches long, ftraggling. 
Leaves evergreen, alternate, fubimbricate, fomewhat egg- 
fhaped, rounded at the bafe and drawn out at the point into 
arigid, fharp, coloured mucro, not really heart-fhaped (al- 
though by being a little bent at the infertion of the fhort flat 
— footftalk “they fometimes appear fo) patent, not recurved ex- 
cept when very young. Flowers axillary, folitary, pendulous, | 
fcentlefs. Peduncles fhort, recurved, with two or three minute _ 
adpreffed braétes. Calyx imbricated at the bafe, but ter- 
Minated in five regular, Jance-fhaped leaflets. Corolla tubular: 
tube five times longer than the calyx, cylindrical, a litte 
curved, crimfon except towards the tip, which, with the limb, 
‘swhite: Limb expanded, divided into five fegments, obtle— 
