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ucea. {fig, 166.) " A stout, upright, bushy, evergreen shrub, well clothed 

 with branches and leaves : branches densely clothed with a soft tomentum, 

 and long soft hairs intermixed. Leaves numerous, spreading, rigid, variable 

 in length, from 4 to 9 in. long, pinnatifid, attenuated to the base, and end- 

 ing in an acute point, hairy when young, but becoming smooth and glossy 



by age on the upper side, underneath clothed with a close snowy white 

 tomentum ; lobes flat and flatly spreading, nearly as broad at the base as 

 long, unequally sided, triangular, acute, but not mucronate, two-nerved 

 underneath, the margins slightly recurved towards the point. Petioles (a) 

 nearly flat, a little convex on the lower side, dilated at the base, woolly, 

 also clothed and fringed with long hairs. Flowers in terminal heads, of a 

 rich orange brown, very handsome, and scented like ripe apricots. Invo- 

 lucre {b) of numerous bractes : outer ones terminated with a leafy point, 

 ^becoming broad and thickened towards the base, those next the flowers 

 terminated in a sphacelate recurved point, densely tomentose and hairy ; 

 inner bractes linearly oblong, acute, also a little reflexed at the points. 

 Receptacle (e) chaffy. Perianthium {d) deeply 4-parted ; the laciniae nar- 

 row, thickly clothed with long soft hairs ; unguis (<?) very slender ; lamina 

 (/) concave, densely clothed with long, glossy, brown hairs. Stamens (g) 

 4, inserted in the hollow of the lamina ; anthers {h) linear ; pollen (i) yel- 

 low. Style {k) smooth and glossy, rigid, and of a horny substance, thickest 

 at the base, and tapering upwards, straw- 

 coloured. Stigma (/) simple, green, ending 

 in scarcely an acute point." wi, One of the 

 outer bractes of the involucrum, terminated 

 in a leafy point, w, One of the inner broad- , 

 ish ones, o. One of the inmost linear ones. 

 p^ Perianthium split on one side, showing 

 the style escaping in a bent direction. — , 

 Billardiera(in honour of J. J. Labillardiere, the 

 celebrated French naturalist, who accompanied 

 the expedition in search of La Peyrouse) sc4n- 

 dens ; Pent^n. Pentag., and Pittosporeae. A 

 small climbing shrub, which produces one of 

 the very few eatable fruits that are natives of 

 New Holland, and even this fruit is not very 

 agreeable to the palate. — Grevllleo acumi- 

 nata {fig, 167.) A handsome shrub, with singular flowers, from the moim- 



