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LecHENAULTIA formosa; floribu: axillaribus 
Prodr. p. 581. Roem, et Sch. Syst. 
_Descr. A small heath-like shrub, Leaves scattered, 
linear, scarcely half an inch long, recurved, smooth. 
_ Flowers axillary, solitary, nodding, of a deep orange colour, 
tinged with purplish red. Germen inferior, linear, about 
an inch long, recurved, purple, resembling a peduncle. 
_ Calyx 5-cleft ; segments like the leaves, but smaller, recurv- 
_ ed. Tube of the Corolla split at the back : border 2-lipped : 
_ upper -lip 2-lobed: lobes oblique, erect, united at the 
— and mucronate : Lower-li; ‘3-lobed : lobes large, re- 
exed, obcordate with a small mucro in the sinus. Sta- 
mens 5, at the bottom of the tube: filaments woolly : 
_ Anthers after defloresence oblong. Style longer than the 
tube. Stigma (Indusium or vest surrounding the true 
Stigma, according to Brown) 2-lipped ; one lip pubescent, 
_ the other naked, filled with pollen which appeared to the 
Naked eye globular, 
LECHENAULTIA 
