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Class and Order. 
Diapeten1a Decanpria. 
Generic Character. 
__ Cal. bilabiatus: labio superiore majore semibifido obtuso. 
Stam. omnia connexa. Legumen plano-compressum, pedi- 
cellatum, polyspermum, margine utroque incrassatum. 
Semina strophiolata. Brown, in Hort. Kew. 
Specific Character and Synonym. — 
Bossiza linophylla ; ramis foliosis compressis, foliis linea- 
_ ‘tibus: marginibus recurvis, legumine uniloculari. 
ge Mss. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 268. Lodd. 
ab. ITA, 
A pretty little green-house shrub, with delicate flexile 
branches, covered towards their extremities with beautiful 
Small blossoms of an orange colour, streaked with red, 
4nd having a green eye. Itis a native of the South-west 
Coast of New-Holland, where it was first detected by Rosert 
Brown, Esq. Introduced in 1803. Flowers in May and 
une. Communicated by Messrs. Loppiers and Sons, who 
iform us in their Cabinet, that “it is not readily in- 
eased except by seeds. A light loam with a little peat 
mixed is a proper soil for it. Is not particularly tender, 
and only requires the common green-house protection, 
with a moderate quantity of water. Planted out in the 
-“ohservatory it grows far more luxuriously, and flowers 
uch better than when confined in a pot.” 
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