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ZIERIA SMITHH. LANCEOLATE ZIERIA, 
Clafs and. Order. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charager. 
Cal. 4-partitus. Petala 4. Stamina glabra glandulis infidentia. 
Stylus fimplex. Stigma 4-lobum. Cap/ule 4. coalite. Sem. arillata. 
SMITH. 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
ZIERIA Smithii; cymis axillaribus trichotomis, pedunculo 
communi petiolo breviore, foliolis lanceolatis pellucide 
punétatis, caule frutefcente. 
ZIERIA Smiibii. Bot. Repos. No. 606. 
ZIERIA Jdanceolata. Brown in Herb, Banks. 
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Desc. A low fhrub. Branches rough with glandular warts. 
Leaves oppofite, ternate, with footftalk about the length of the 
leaflets, which are lanceolate or rather oblong-elliptical, rough- 
ifh above and punétate underneath with pellucid glands, as in 
Hypericum perforatum. Flowers in axillary and trichotomous 
cymes, having the common peduncle fhorter than the petiole. 
Braé&es fabulate, horizontal, two at each divifion of the 
peduncle, fubperfiftent. Calyx villous, 4-toothed. Corolla 
white, 4-petaled: pefals ovate acute, fomewhat revolute, 
much exceeding the calyx. S/amens 4, hypogynous, with a 
globular gland on the infide of the bafe of each. Germens 4, 
united internally : /fyle erett: ffigma 4-lobed. 
‘There are three other fpecies of Zierta in the Bankfian 
Herbarium; of which Zieria arborefcens is the only one that 
can be confounded with our plant; and that, befides growing 
into a tree, has the common peduncles longer than the footitalk 
of the leaf, leaves tomentofe underneath and not pellucidly 
dotted, 
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