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ASTROLOMA HUMIFUSUM. JUNIPER-LEAVED 



ASTROLOMA. 



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 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charafier. 



Cal. bracteis 4, pluribufve imbricatus. Cor. tubo ventricofo, 

 calyce duplo longiore, intusjuxta bafin fafciculis 5 villorum : 

 limbo brevi, patenti barbato. Filamcnta lincaria inclufa. 

 Ovarium 5-locu!arc. Drupj fubexfucca, putamine offeo, folida. 

 Brown Prod. Nov. Holl. 



Specific Charatler and Synonym. 



ASTROLOMA humifufum t proftratnm ramofiffimum, foliis 

 lanceolato-linearibus fupra convexiufculis margine ciliatis. 

 Brown Prod. Nov. Holl. p. 538. 



VINTENATIA bumifufa. Cav. ic. 4. /. 348. p. 28. 



We are indebted to Me firs. Malcolm and Sweet, Nurfery- 

 men, at Stockwell-Common, for the opportunity of giving a 

 figure of this rare plant, which we have not feen in any other 

 collection. 



The genus Styphelia having become very extenfive, 

 Mr. Brown has divided it; but, in plants of this natural 

 order, it is not eafy to find difcriminating characters in 

 the parts of fructification ; accordingly, the only difference we 

 remark in the character of this genus from that of Styphelia, 

 in this author's valuable work, exifts in a rather flight variation 

 in the form of the corolla, and the more linear anthers, which 

 are included within the tube of the corolla, not exferted as in 

 Styphelia. Thefe diverfities, though not ffriking, are, 

 however, important when combined with certain peculiarities 

 of habit, which probably afforded the firft guide in making the 

 feparation. 



Native of New-Holland, about Port-Jackfon, nlfo of the 

 fouthern coafls, and of Van Diemen's Ifland. Flowers in 

 Auguft. May be confidered as a hardy grcenhoufe fhrub, re- 

 quiring nearly the fame treatment as the Cape Heaths. 



