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DlLLWYNIA ERICIFOLIA. HEATH-LEAVED 

 DlLLWYNIA. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. 



Cat. 5-fidus, bilabiatus, bah* attenuata. Cor. papilionacea, 

 petalis ftaminibufque deciduis, medio tubo calycis infertis : 

 vexilli lamina duplo et ultra latior quam longa, divaricato- 

 biloba. Germen difpermum. Stylus uncinatus. Stigma capitatum. 

 Legumen ventricofum. Semina itrophiolata. Brown. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



DlLLWYNIA ericifolia,- foliis linearibus tortis pun&ulato- 

 fcabris, floribus fubterminalibus. Smith in Linn. Soc.frmf. 

 9. p. 262. Exot. Bot. t. 26. 



DlLLWYNIA mVj/o/w; corymbis terminalibus feffilibus, 

 foliis (4-Hn.) fubulatis punctato-fcabris divaricatis fubtortis : 

 mucrone pungenti, ramulis pubefcentibus. Brown in Hort. 

 Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 15, 



PULTENvEA retorta. Wendl Hort. Herrenh. 2. p. 13. *• 9- 



There appears to be great difficulty in diftinguifhing ac- 

 curately D. ericifolia from floribunda. The inflorefcence in (oinc 

 fpecimens cf our prefent plant is terminal ; in others, from the 

 young branches (hooting beyond the flowers and the intermixture 

 of leaves with the flowers, thefe become rather axillary than 

 terminal. Where the flowers grow fo very clofe together, it" 

 not eafy to determine whether they grow in pairs or fingtyj m 

 dried fpecimens -, and we neglected examining into this when w e 

 had the living plant before us. Mr. Brown makes " floribus 

 geminis" a characler of floribunda, but Dr. Smith, in his de- 

 fcription, exprefsly fays the peduncles are folitary. 



Our plant correfponds very well with Dr. Smith's delcrip- 

 tion in the Tranfafclions of the Linnean Society ; but not Wit 

 the figure in Exotic Botany, nor with that of Wend land. 



A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Native of New South- Wales- 

 Communicated by Meflrs. Loddiges and Sons. 



