1917 



* STACKHOtJSIA inon6gyna. 



Pink-tipped Stackkousia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. Ord. SxACKHOUSIACEiE. 



STACKHOUSIA. Smith. Genus solum adhuc notum in ordine. 



S. munogijna ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis lanceolatisque, spicis cylindraceis elon- 

 gatis apice acute conicis, corollae laciniis acutatis, staminlbus inxqualibus, 

 coccls oblongis corrugate -areolatis, bracteis brevissimis membranaceis. 



S. monogyna. Lab. Nov. Holl. 1. t. 104. 



Planta herbacea, ■perennis, pedalis et ultra; caule folioso, ramoso, sub- 

 decumbente, glaberrimo, striata. Folia lineari-lanceolata, et lanceolata, 

 nullo modo carnosa, basi acuminata. Spies densce, semper apice rosea conico 

 acuta, nunc per luxuriem foliis quibusdam intermixtce, post anthesin valde 

 elongatoe. Bracteag acutninaice, membranacece, calyce breviares. Calyx 

 5-Jidus, campanulatus , corolla multoties brevior ; tuba carnosa, discum ad- 

 hcerentem gerente, laciniis acuminatis. Corolla pseuda-monopetalu, petalis 

 in tubum cylindraceum concretis basi liberis, limbo piano acutato. Stamina 

 5, incequilonga, tubo breviara, infauce calycis inserta extra discum. Ova- 

 rium trilabum, monostyluyn, stigmatibus tribus linearibus erectis, tubo corollae 

 multo brevioribus vix calycem longitudine superantibus. 



A pretty neat herbaceous plant, native of Van Diemen's 

 Land, whence its seeds were sent by Mr. James Backhouse 

 to his brothers at York, where it flowered for the first time 

 in April of the present year. I have wild specimens of it 

 collected in the same island by Mr. Gunn (69) and others. 



It is interesting as forming the type of a ver^'' small 

 natural order bearing its own name, concerning which the 



* So named in honour of the late John Stackhousc, Esq. F.L.S. of Pen- 

 darvis in Cornwall, author of a splendid work on submarine plants, entitled 

 " Nereis Britannica," and of some botanical illustrations of Theophrasstus. — 

 Smith. 



