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LASIOPETALUM PURPUREUM. PURPLE= 
FLOWERED LASIOPETALUM. 
SEE EE RE EE RE ER EEE 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. 
Generic Charatter. 
Cal. rotatus, quinquefidus. Stamina bafi fquama munita. 
Anthere apice poris 2. Cap/ula fupera, 3-locularis, trivalvis : 
valvis medio feptiferis. 
Specific CharaGer and Synonym. 
LASIOPETALUM purpureum ; foliis ovalibus integerrimis. 
Hort. Kew. ed, alt. 2. p. 36. ge Bt 
Descr. A low fSru, decumbent unlefs fupported, covered 
in every part, not excepting the flowers, witha ftcllated pu- 
befcence. Leaves oblong-elliptical, quite entire, alternate. 
Stipule heart-fhaped, oblique, fometimes lobed, growing in pairs 
or fingly above the petiole. Thefe ftipules do not accompany 
all the leaves, and are fometimes diftant from the leaf. It 
often happens that the peduncle takes the place of one of the 
ftipules, fo that the leaf ftands in the middle with a ftipule on 
one fide and a peduncle on the other. Stamens two or three 
times longer than the leaf, about fix-flowered : flowers looking 
one way. Flowers have no corolla, but a purple-coloured 
calyx, fupported underneath by a ternate involucre or braée con~ 
fifting of three linear leaflets looking all one way. Stamens five, 
filaments very {hort ; anthers black, conniving at the points ; 
germen fuperior, three-cornered ; /fyle confiderably longer than 
ftamens ; /tigma fimple. 
The lively purple flowers without fcent remain very long 
expanded, and coming in fucceflion, this little greenhoufe fhrub — 
continues in bloffom nearly half the year. 
Native 
