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Lasiopetalum quercifolium. Oak- 

 leaved Lasiopetalum. 



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C/rt/} a;;J Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charatler. 



Cal. rotatus, 5-fidus. Stamina bah* fquama munita. Anther* 

 apice poris duobus. Cap/, fupera, 3-locularis, trivalvis : valvis 

 medio feptiferis. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



LASIOPETALUM quercifolium; foliis cordatis trilobis j lobis 

 obtufe lobulatis, ftipulis fablobatis petiolatis. 



LASIOPETALUM quercifolium; foliis cordatis trilobis : lobis 

 obtufe lobulars. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 36. 



LASIOPETALUM quercifolium. Bot.Repof.45g. 



Desc. A low depreffed/fo^, covered in every part with a 

 brown, flellated, rigid, fubpungcht pubefcence. Leaves alternate, 

 three or five-lobed, with the lobes obtufely finuate, dark, green 

 on the upper furface, pale and woolly underneath; but both 

 fides as well as the footflalks and margins are ftudded over with 

 the above-mentioned ftarry pubefcence. Stipules oppofitc, ge- 

 nerally three-lobed, refembling the leaves, on fhort footftalks. 

 Peduncle folitary, oppofed to the leaf, bearing a fimple raceme 

 of red flowers looking one way. Calyx petal like, five-cleft, 

 rotate-campanulate. Bracles three, linear, rcilexed, clofe to 

 and nearly as long as the calyx. 



Native of New-Holland. Requires a greenhoufe. Propa- 

 gated by cuttings. Flowers from April to June. Communi- 

 cated by Mr. Knight, from the Exotic Nuriery, King's-Road, 

 Liule-Chelfea. 



