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Dracopuytium cracite. SLENDER: 
DracopHyLtuM. 
Class and Order. : 
_. Pentanpria Monoeynia. 
_ Generic Character. 
Cal. bi- vel ebracteatus. Cor. tubulosa, limbo 5-partito, 
patenti, imberbi. Stamina epipetala v. hypogyna. ~Squa- 
mule 5, hypogyne. Capsula placentis ab apice columne 
centralis pendulis, solutis. R. Brown. Ww - Bole 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Dracopuytium gracile ; ramis floriferis Spica ovata multo- 
ties longioribus, foliis caulinis subulato-lanceolatis 
patulis recurvisve ; rameis appressis. Brown Prodr. 
— Nov. Holl. p. 556. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 4. 
| p. 386. 3 
_ Epacris gracilis. Poir. Encycl. Bot. Suppl. 2. p. 556. 
Descr. A low shrub, with straggling branches clothed 
with lanceolate, recurved leaves, sheathing the stem at 
their base, mucronulate and subpungent, collected at the 
_ extremities of the sterile branches into green globular 
heads. The peduncles, or flowering branches, are clothed 
- with closely adpressed, erect, sheathing leaves or bractes. 
Flowers white, collected in terminal, ovate, compact heads, 
crowned with green, subulate leaves, or bractes. Calyx 
two-bracted, sessile, green, five-leaved : leaflets lanceolate, 
acute, hairy on the outer side and striped on the inner, 
equal to the tube of the corolla. Corolla saucer-shaped : 
_ limb five-cleft : lacinie spreading, round obovate, with un- 
dulate margins : faux c osed: tube cylindrical. Anthers 
meluded, brown. Germen nearly globular, 5-torulose - 
"_ Style shorter by half than the tube, smooth : stigma capi- 
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