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Styphelia triflora. Cluster-flowered 



Styphelia. 



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C/rt/> <jw^ Order. 



PEN TAN DR I A MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. bra&eis 4 pluribufve. Cor. elongato-tubulofa; fw£fl intus 



juxta bafin fafciculis 5 villorum : /////£o laciniis revolutis, bar- 



batis. Fil. exlerta. Ovarium 5-loculare : loculis monofperrais. 



Dn//>a fubexfucca, putamine ofleo, folido. Brown. 

 Specific Character and Synonyms. 



STYPHELIA triflora; foliis elliptico- veloblongo-lanceolatis 

 planis glaucis : paginis marginibulque laevibus, 

 ramulis glabris, floribus corvmbofo-approxi- 

 matis, pedunculis 1 — 3-flori.s. Brown Prod. 

 Nov. Hoi. p. 537. 



STYPHELIA triflora; foliis imbricatis fparfis glaucis, ovato- 

 mucronatis, floribus axillaribus ternis. Bot. 

 Repof. 72. 



STYPHELIA triflora \ racemis fparfis, axillaribus, trifloris ; 

 foliis fparfis, imbricatis, ovatis, acuminatis, 

 concaviufculis, glaucis. Gaivler Recenf. Plant. 



Re pof. 13. 



There appears to be a confiderable difference in the form 

 and colour of the corolla, between the figure here given, and 

 that in the Botanift's Repofitory ; but as our plant correfponds 

 with the character given by Mr. Brown in his Prodromus, we 

 °o not hefitate to refer it to his S. triflora. The peduncles 

 ar e not exclufivcly three- flowered, but more frequently one or 

 tw °-flowered, are axillary, and crowded together at about the 

 middle of the branch. The bracks at the bale of the calyx 

 ar e not very well expreffed in the figure ; they are generally 

 three, very obtufe, the exterior one much imaller than the 

 others, befides a few minute imbricate fcales, fcarcely dif- 

 cernible to the naked eye. It is a handfome evergreen, re- 

 hiring only to be protected from froft, and when they come to 

 'lower freely, which at prefent few are of fufificient age to do, 

 Will he very fhewy. 



. Propagated by feeds and cuttings. Flowers in July. Na- 

 tive of New-Holland in the neighbourhood of Port- Jackfon. 

 ■introduced about 1793, by Mr. Hibbert. Our drawing was 

 fnade from a plant communicated by Mr. Knight, of the 

 Kmg's-Road, Chelfea. 



