Tab. 7870. 



CROWEA ANGUSTIFOlilA. 

 Native of West Australia. 



Nat. Ord. RuTACE^. — Tribe BoRONiEiE. 

 Genus Ckowea, 8m. \ [Benth. 8f Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 293.) 



Crowea, angustifoUa ', ffaticulusglaberritnaa, ramulis vzrgatia erectis gracili- 

 bns angulatis, foliis sparsis l-2-pollicaribu8 seasilibua linearibus integris 

 dentatis subserratisve acutis acmninatisve enerviis glandulis miuutip, 

 floribus axillaribiis solitariis rariua 2-3-iiis, pedicellia brevilmg basi 

 minute bracteolatis, sepalis miDutia rotundatis, petalia ^ poll, longia 

 lineari-oblongis obtusis roseia v. albia, filamentia pilosulia, antheria 

 lineari-oblongia dorso hispidulis connective in rostrum elongatum hispi- 

 dulum erectura producto, ovario breviter stipitato glabro, stylo valiJo 

 piloaulo, stigmate lobulato, coccis tranaverse rugoais. 



C. angustifoUa, Turcz. in Bidl. t^oc. Nat. Mosc. vol. xxii. (1849), p. 13. Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, vol. i. p. 330. 



Eiiostemon Turczaninovii, F. Mwell. PI. Vict. vol. i. p. 120. 



Crowea is a small Australian genus of four species, 

 very closely allied to the much larger one of Eriostemon, 

 from which it differs only in the much larger hairy appen- 

 dage terminating the anther. It was named by Sir James 

 Smith in compliment to James Crowe, Esq., F.L.S., of 

 Lakenham, near Norwich, a zealous British Botanist, 

 especially Cryptogamis, and an ardent cultivator of the 

 "Willows. He died in 1807. One species alone has hitherto 

 been figured in this or any other work, the G. salignaf 

 Andr. tab. 989. 



G. angustifoUa is a native of King Gleorge's Sound, 

 where it was first collected by James Drummond. The 

 plant figured was raised from seed sent from Albany to 

 the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899 by Sergeant-Major 

 Goadby, which flowered in the Temperate House in March 

 of the present year. 



Descr. — A slender, glabrous shrub, with erect stem and 

 angular branches. Leaves scattered, one to two inches 

 long, sessile, linear, entire toothed or sub-seriate, acute 

 or acuminate, nerveless, studded with minute oil-glands. 

 Flowers many, axillary, solitary, or two to three together, 

 about an inch broad. Pedicels short, with minute bracts 

 at the base. Sepals minute, orbicular. Petals half an 

 Decbmber IsT, 1902. 



