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EPACRIS ONOSM/EFLORA. ONOSMA-FLOWERED 
EPacris. 
TERE KER EEE RRR RRR 
Class and Order. 
PrentanpriaA Monoeyntia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Epacrivex. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx coloratus, multibracteatus: bracteis coloratis. Co- 
rolla tubulosa ; limbo imberbi. Stamina epipetala : An- 
theris supra medium peltatis. Sguamule hypogyne 5. 
Capsula placentis column centrali adnatis. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Eracris * onosmeflora ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis cucullato-concaviusculis quinquenerviis mucro- 
natis petiolatis margine ciliatis, ramulis incanis, corol- 
lis cylindraceo-ventricosis tubo calycem acutissimum 
superante. Cumnn. 
Epacris onosmeflora. Cunningham in Field’s N. S. Wales, 
p. 340. 
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Descr. A rigid shrub, with numerous, erect, rather 
Wavy branches, the ramuli downy. Leaves from half to 
three-fourths of an inch long, patent or somewhat squar- 
tose, dark green, sessile, ovate, acuminate, coriaceous, rigid, 
concave at the base, obscurely five-nerved, entire, the point _ 
extremely sharp, the margins, especially below, ciliated. 
Flowers rather large, solitary, nearly sessile in the axils of 
the upper and rather crowded leaves, thus appearing to 
form a bracteated or leafy spike. Calyx deeply ae 
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