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ANDERSONIA SPRENGELIOIDES. SPRENGELIA- 
| LIKE ANDERSONIA,. 
SHR bse be okst dest desk 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Generic Charaéier. 
Cal. coloratus, bra@eis foliaceis ¢ pluribufve imbricatus, 
Cor. longitudine calycis : limbi laciniis bafi barbatis. Stam. hy- 
“pogyna : antheris infra medium affixis. Squamule hypogyne 5, 
nunc connate. Cap/ placentis columnz centrali adnatis, Brown. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonym. 
ANDERSONIA /Jprengelioides ; foliis patulis: acumine plano, 
— ~ Hort. Kew, ed. alt. v, 1. p. 322. Brown Prod. 554. 
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The genus, of which our prefent plant is a fpecies, was 
eftablifhed by Mr. Brown in his Prodromus Flore Nove Hol. 
landie. differs from SprENcELIA chiefly in the exiftence of 
{cales at the bafe of the germen (neétaria of Linnzus); which 
are wanting in the latter genus, and in the greater length of the 
tube of the corolla, with lacinie bearded at the bafe. 
Mr. Brown gave it the name of An DERSONIA, in memory 
of Mr. Witiiam ANDERSON, Surgeon, who accompanied 
Captain Coox in two of his voyages, in the laft of which he 
 Perifhed; and alfo to commemorate the merits of Dr. ALEx- 
ANDER ANDERSON, Prefeét of the botanic garden in the Ifland 
of St. Vincent, and of Mr. Wittram ANDERSON, a moft 
fkilful gardener and affiduous cultivator of curious exotics, as 
alfo an acute obferver of their peculiar habits, to whofe abilities . 
Our pages bear frequent witnefs, | | 
Communicated by Meffrs. Marcotm and Sweet, from 
oe very interefting colletion at Stockwell-Common, in June 
1813. 7 
A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Difcovered on the fouthern coafts — 
of New-Holland, by Mr. Brown, Introduced in 1783, by 
Mr. Peter Goon, | 
