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Conchium salignum. Bonn. Cant. 21. 

 Embothrium salignum. Andr. Repos. t. 215. 



A native of the country near Port Jackson. It flowered at 

 Messrs. Lee and Kennedy's in 1791, and in the conservatory of 

 Thomas Johnes, Esq. at Hafod, in June 1798, from which last 

 place I have received ripe capsules, serving to determine the 



genus. 



The leaves are 5 or 6 inches long, smooth and pliable, of a 

 narrow lanceolate form, entire, acute, but not spinous, furnish- 

 ed with one nerve, and a few lateral veins. Flowers small, white, 

 smooth, in smooth axillary umbels. Capsule ovate, recurved 

 very gibbous, and somewhat rugged at each side, tapering at 

 the base. Each of its valves is tipped with a lateral spine, as 

 in several of the species that have cylindrical leaves. 



J. E. Smith. 



Norwich* March 3, 1806. 



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