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BEAUFORTIA DECUSSATA. SPLENDID 
_ BEAUFORTIA. 7 
"Clalit and Order. 
Po LYADELPHIA.ICOSAN DRIA. 
Generic Charaéter. 
Staminium phalanges 5, petalis oppofite. Anthere bafi inferte : 
apice bifide : lobis deciduis! Cap/. 3-locularis, monofpermay 
connata et inclufa calycis tubo incraffato bafi adnato (ramo). 
Brown. als 
filamentis radianti ibus. B oie tn Bor 
2p. 418 ; 
The Beavurortia decuffata, when covered with bloffoms, is 
a very fplendid fhrub. As in Metareuca, the flowers are 
produced a little below the divifions of the branches. They 
entirely furround the ftem, and are not confined to one fide, as 
in Catornamnus, No. 1506, Calyx inferior, top-fhaped, 
incurved : limb five-cleft : fegments awl-fhaped, the length of 
the petals. Corolla five-petaled, green: petals concave, rounded, 
fides overlapping one another, inferted into the margin of the 
tube of the calyx. Stamens polyadelphous. Filaments collefted 
into five bundies: the claws, or connetted parts, much longer 
than the corolla, the free parts divaricate or radiated, not half the 
length of the claws. But the principal chara€ter on which the 
genus is founded, is afforded by the anthers: thefe are not in- 
cumbent, as in MeLaeuca, but are inferted by the bafe, are 
two-lobed : /obes more or lefs divaricate at the point, and deci- 
duous. When fallen off, they appear like little extinguifhers, 
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