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SPHENOTOMA* capitatum. 

 Long-leaved Sphenotoma. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Epacride^ R. Br. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 183.) 



SPHENOTOMA.— Calyx bibracteatus. Corolla hypocrateriformis, 

 tubo gracili, fauce coarctata, limbo 5-partito, obtusissimo, patente, imberbi. 

 Stamina epipetala. Squamulce 5, hypogynse. Capsula placentis ab apice 



columnse centralis pendulis, solutis. Frutices, ramis dum denudatis annu- 



latis. Folia imbricata, basibus cucullatis, semivaginantibus. Spica sim- 

 plex, bracteis subtendentibus persistentibus. — Sweet fl. austr. 44. 



S. capitatum ; ramis floriferis spica ovata multoties longioribus, foliis caulinis 

 ensiformi-lanceolatis erectiusculis : rameis adpressis. — R. Brown prodr. 

 556, sub Dracophyllo. 



Frutex suberectus, ramosus, sempervirens. Folia ensiformi-lanceolata, 

 basi vaginantia, acuminatissima, striata ; caulina erecta v. subpatentia, 

 pilosa, ramea minora, appressa, glaberrima. Spica ovata, brevis. Flores 

 albi, bracteis 2 navicularibus glabris suffulti. Calyx 5-phyllus ; sepalis 

 oblongis, concavis, imbricatis, glabris ; exterioribus obtusis. Corolla hypo- 

 crateriformis, laciniis cuneatis subundidatis. Stamina 5, epipetala; antheris 

 linearibus, unilocularibus, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 



A native of the south-west coast of New Holland, 

 whence its seeds were obtained by Mr. Knight, in whose 

 Nursery, in the King's Road, our drawing was made in 

 April last. 



It is a pretty greenhouse plant, requiring the same 

 treatment as the Epacrises, Styphelias, and other well- 

 known plants of the same natural family. 



A somewhat erect, evergreen shrub, much inclined to 

 branch. Leaves between sword -shaped and lanceolate, 



* Derived, we suppose, from <rtph, a wedge, and tt^m, to cut; in allusion 

 to the wedge-shaped segments of the corolla. 



