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BuURSARIA SPINOSA. THORNY BURSARIA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MonoGyYNIA, 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Petala 5, receptaculo inferta. Capf compreffa, 2-partibilis, 
1-locularis, 2-fperma. 
~ Specific Nume and Synonyms. 
BURSARIA /pinofa. Cavan. ic. 4. p. 30. t. 350 Hort. Kew. 
ed. alt. 2. p. 36. 
ITEA /pinofa. Bot. Repof. 314. 
This pretty flowering fhrub, well defcribed by the late 
Profeffor CAVANILLES, is, in feveral refpeéts, nearly allied to 
Irea; but differs from that genus in having its petals and 
ftamens inferted into the receptacle below the germen, and a 
flattened obcordate capfule, which, when ripe, feparates into 
two parts, each of which is one-celled, two-valved, and con- 
tains two feeds. ee 
It takes its name from the form of the capfule, which fome- 
what refembles that of the Shepherd’s Purfe. 
A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Native of New South-Wales. 
Flowers from Auguft to December. _ Propagated by cuttings. 
Loves a fandy peat foil with a flight admixture of loam. 
Introduced in 1793, by the Marchionefs of Rock1ncHan. 
Communicated by Meffrs. Loppices and Sons. 
In the Bankfian Herbarium, we find fpecimens from Van 
Diemen’s Ifland and Port Dalrymple, which have larger leaves 
and fruit, and one of them is without fpines, 
