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Calothamnus quadrifida. Four-cleft 

 Calothamnus, 



Oafs and Order. 



POLYADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



Generic Character* 



Staminum phalanges 4 — 5, petalis oppofita (aliquse nunc vel 

 connate vel fteriles). Anther* bafi infertae, lineares. Cap/. 3- 

 locularis, polyfperma, inclufa et connata calycis tubo incraffato 

 bafi adnato (ramo). Brown. 



Specific Charatter. 



CALOTHAMNUS quadrifida; floribus quadrifidis, phalangi- 

 bus 12 — i5andris, foliis glandulofo verrucofis : adultis 

 fru&ibufque glabris. Brown in Hort. Kezv. v. 4. inedit. 



Calothamnus* is the name of a genus feparated from 

 Melaleuca, by M. Labillardiere ; -which Mr. Brown 

 has adopted, though without limiting it, as that author has done, to 

 fuch fpecies as may have certain bundles of the ftamens fterile. 

 The above generic character includes feveral fpecies, all of which 

 are very fimilar in habit, and have their anthers attached to the fila- 

 ments by the bafe, a circumftance that diftinguilhes them from the 

 true Melaleucas, in all of which the anthers are incumbent, or 

 attached to the filament at fome point between the two extremities. 

 The fpike of flowers in the Calothamni always looks one way, 

 and does not furround the item as in the Melaleuca. 



This fhrub is a native of the fouth-weft coaft of New-Holland, 

 where it was found by Mr. Brown, on the expedition under 

 Captain Flinders, and introduced by him into the royal 

 garden at Kew, in the year 1803. 



Communicated to us from their richly-flocked nurfery 8t 

 Stockwell-Common, by Meflrs. Malcolm and Sweet, to 

 whom we feel much obliged by the readinefc they always fhow 

 to aflift our botanical enquiries. Flowers in June and July. 

 Requires the protection of a greenhoufe. 



* K*xif Sd.pi'Kf a beautiful fhrub. 



