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LEPTOSPERMUM FLAVESCENS. YELLOWISH 
Fig 
Soutu-Sea Myrtte. 
Se Se ee 
Class and Order. 
eS 5 2 
icosanpria Monocynia. 
4 Se = 5 —_ é t i 
Cal. 5-fidus, semi-superus.. - Petala ! , unguic 
minibus longiora. Stigma eapitatum. — 
cularis. Semina angulosa. = 
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et 
= 
LeprosPermum flavescens. Symi 
3. p. 262. Willd. Sp. Pl. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 0.3. p. 181. 
Lerrospermum Thea. Willd. Sp. Pl 
Metareuca Thea. “ Schrad. Sert. : 
Descr. A middling-sized shrub, with many twiggy, an- 
gular branches, clothed with reddish-brown bark. aves 
numerous, scattered, from an inch to an inch and a half 
long, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse at the extremity, 
but tipped with a short mucro, obscurely three-nerved, 
glabrous (as is all the rest of the plant) and dotted, espe- 
cially beneath. The flowers are large, numerous, upon 
short axillary leafy branches, solitary and sessile, having — 
some ovate brown scales or bractez at the base, which are | 
very deciduous. Calyx half inferior, punctated ; its five 
teeth roundish, white and submembranous, standing ce | 
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