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178 Dr Graliam's List of Rare Plants. 



at the end of the peduncle ; the central one first expands, and after- 

 wards the others m succession, but not very frequently two at a time, 

 unless the peduncle is more frequently divided. Bractea subulate, one 

 on the outside of each pedicel, and about half its length, deciduous ; 

 two similar but smaller bractere are placed opposite to each other, about 

 the middle of each pedicel, and from the axils of these, other flowers 

 push, or [)rove abortive. Calyx 5.-])arted, segments green, subulate, 

 erect, and very similar to the bractecg. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube cy- 

 lindrical, and nearly twice as long as the calyx ; fatias campanulate, crown- 

 ed ; corona of 5 biparted blunj^ white teeth ; limh cut into 5 linear seg- 

 ments (about 2 inches long) : in the bud, these segments form a long- 

 twisted beak, but afterwards spread wide ; colour ot the coroUa yellow, 

 streaked and sprinkled Avith red on the inside of the throat and base of 

 the lacinitie. Filaments gibbous, adhering by their backs to the tube of 

 the corolla, and, as well as the inside of the campanulate portion of the 

 corolla, hairy ; anthers sagittate, adhering to each other and to the stig- 

 ma, each terminated by a long awn. Germen round, lobular, green ; style 



^ 'i^ stout, cylindrical, white; stigma angular. 



* -ISeedling plants were receiA'-ed several years ago from Valley field, the seat 

 of Sir Robert Preston, but their history could not be ascertained. Have 

 been kept in the stove, and flower freely. There is a specimen in the 

 Banksian herbarium, v.hich, from my own recollection, I would have 

 said is hot haiiied, but marked from China ; but, according to the Bota- 

 nical Register, it is there considered a variety of .S*. dichotomus; and as 1 

 took no notes when I saw the specimen above two years ago, it is pro- 

 bable I am wrong. It must, I think, be considered specifically distinct. 



Trixis auriculata. 



T. auriculata ; fruticosa ; foliis sessilibus, auriculatis, pubescentibus, sub- 

 tus tomentosis, sparse denticulatis, paniculis axillaribus terminalibus- 

 que, divaricatis, paucifloris. 



Descriptiox. — Stem woody, round. Bark brown, cracked. Branches 

 green, woolly, flexuose. Leaves scattered, at length revolute from the 

 apex, sessile, winged, lanceolate, ciliato-deiiticulate, j^ale green, densely 

 pubescent above, covered with yellowish short tomentum below, glu- 

 tinous •, wings rounded, quite entire, stem clasping, at first spreading, 

 flat, afterwards revolute in their edges. Peduncle axiUary, generally 

 supporting three flowers, round,- about half the length of the leaves, 

 spreading^ and afterwards divaricated. Pedicels spreading, at length 

 divaricate, as well as the peduncles pubescent, and one of the pedicels 

 generally provided about its middle with a small ovate leaf. Pe- 

 duncles, pedicels, and reflected calyx, become brown, and long remain 

 attached to the plant. Flowers nodding; calyx persivSting, calycled, 

 cylindrical, green, of 8 equal, linear-lanceolate keeled phylla ; calycle 

 persisting, of 5 or 6 unequal, lanceolate leafets, spreading at the apex, 

 one often approaching in size to the calyx. Corolla white, pubes- 

 cent on the outside, bilabiate; outer Up much the largest, reflected, 

 its edges involute, apex 3-toothed ; inner Up revolute, cleft to its base ; 

 faux inflated ; tube curved outwards. Anthers brownish-yellow, ex- 

 tending from the throat to the stigma ; spurs^ two from the base of 

 each anther, somewhat waved, nearly as long as the filaments, near- 

 ly colourless ; filaments inserted into the upjjor part of the tube. Stig- 

 ma cleft, revolute, yellow ; style tumid at the base, and slightly swell- 

 ing towards the stigma, nearly as long as the outer lip of the co- 

 rolla, white. Seed long, pubescent, surmounted with a little spreading 

 saucer, the ed»es of which support the pappus, and the style is inserted 

 into a little elevation in the centre ; pubescence tubular, and yielding 

 from its extremity a transparent fluid. Pappus sessile, yellow, hair-Hke, 

 rough, reaching to the limb of the corolla. Receptacle subpilose, pitted. 



This plant was received in 18^4 at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 

 from M. Otto, Berlin, under the name of Perdicium brasiHense ; but I 

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