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CORETHROSTYLIS bracteata. 

 Rosy-armed Corethrostylis. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Lasiopetale^. 



CORETHROSTYLIS, Endl. Inflorescentia cymosa, oppositifolia, 

 Uracteolce a calyce remotse, coloratse. Calyx petaloideus, marcescens, ad 

 basim quinquepartitus, laciniisjlanceolato-acuminatis, stellato-patentibus, sesti- 

 Vatione valvatis. Corolla nulla. Stamina 5, hypogyna, calycis laciniis 

 alterna ; jilamenta brevissima, subulata, libera ; antherce extrorsse, bilocu- 

 lares, ovoideo-oblongae, medio dorso insertse, loculis apice intus poro dehi- 

 scentibus. Ovarium sessile, triloculare. Ovula in loculis gemina, collate- 

 ralia, ex anguli centralis basi adscendentia, extrorsum anatropa. Stylus 

 elongatus, pilorum fasciculis retrorsis hispidus, pyramidato-scopseformis. 

 Stigma simplex. Capsula calyce eraarcido connivente tecta, trilocularis, 

 loculicide trivalvis, valvis medio septiferis intus glabris. Semina in loculis 

 solitaria, erecta, ovato-oblonga, testa durissima, raphe introrsa filiformi ad- 

 nata, umbilicum basilarem, strophiola cupulseformi multipartita cinctum, 

 cum chalaza apicali, jungente. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi ortliotropus, 

 ejusdem fere longitudine, cotyledonibus foliaceis, ovatis, planis, dorso 

 raphen respicientibus, radicula tereti, longa, umbilicum attingente, infera. 



Frutices NovcB-Hollandice austro-occidentalis, pilis stellatis consiti ; foliis 



alternis, petiolatis, cordatis, integerrimis v. repando subsinuatis, inflorescentia 

 oppositifolia, cymoso-racemosa, bracteis foliaceis, bracteolis sparsis, coloratis, 

 alabastris acuminatis. — Endl. gen. no. 532G, 



C. bracteata ; Endl. nov. stirp. mus. Vind. dec. 1. Walper's repert. 1. 337. 



This is one of the most striking of the Swan River 

 shrubs, but owing to some difficulty in cultivating it, the 

 specimens that have been produced in Europe are very 

 inferior to the wild ones. In the latter the bracts are four 

 times as large as in the annexed cut, and of the most vivid rose- 

 colour, thus rendering the bush indescribably gay ; for the 

 long loose clusters, adorned by these bracts, are produced in 

 multitudes all over the plant. 



* From Koc)r]^pov, a broom, in allusion to the singularly hairy style- 



