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* HYPOCALYMMA robustum. 

 Larger Peach Myrtle. 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Myrtace^. 



HYPOCALYMMA. Flores axillares, capitati. Calyx tubo campanu- 

 lato, cum ovario connate, limbo supero quinquepartito . CoroUce petala 5, 

 calycis fauce insei-ta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, breviter unguiculata, orbiculata. 

 Stamina 20-30, cum petalis inserta, iisdem longiora ; Jilamenta filiforma sub- 

 ulata ; anthera biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum, 

 biloculare (^-bilocvilare) ; loculis multi-ovulatis. Stt/Ius filiformis. Stigma ca- 



pitatum (simplex). Ffuctus Frutices N. Hollandice austro-oc- 



cidentalis, foliis oppusitis exstipulalis, lineari-lanceolatis, mucronatis, floribus 

 axillaribus sessilibus v. brevissime pedicellatis capitatis scarioso-bracteolatis , 

 roseis V. persicinis. Endl. Genera Plautarum, no. 6306. 



H. robustum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronatis, floribus axillaribus brevis- 

 sime pedicellatis, capitulis subniultifloris. Endl. enum. plant. 50. 



This is one of those beautiful little Myrtaceous plants 

 peculiar to the South-west of New Holland, which might be 

 easily mistaken for small Almond or Peach bushes, so much 

 are the flowers like them, and so seldom do we find bright 

 rosy blossoms among the Myrtles. 



It is a native of the Swan River Colony, and has been 

 raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. of Exeter. The 

 leaves when bruised smell very agreeably of lemon. 



It is a greenhouse plant, and requires to be potted in a 

 compost consisting of loam and heath-mould, with a small 

 portion of silver sand. The pot must be well drained, so as 

 to allow all noxious matter to pass off. Water should be freely 



* From vTTo under, and ^aXi////uo a veil, in allusion we presume to the 

 bracts that veil the calyx from below. 



