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further than the flowers. Flowers numerous, collected into 

 a pretty large, sessile head, which bursts from the anterior 

 margin of the jointed petioles, small, and nearly hid among 

 the large bractes ; when they first expand in the morning 

 rose-coloured, gradually becoming purple by the evening. 

 Bractes, calyx of Louriero's Phyllodes, several, collecting 

 the small sessile flowers into several fasciculi of two, three, 

 or four pair, each of which expand in succession. The ex- 

 terior one of each fascicle is large, subcylindric, of a firm 

 texture, and reddish colour ; apices truncate, with scariose, 

 incurved margin ; the rest are smaller, and more or less 

 pointed. Calyx superior, three-leaved ; leaflets ensiform, 

 length of the tube of the corol, hairy about the points. Corol 

 one-petalled. Tube funnel-shaped, scarcely perforated. 

 Border double ; exterior of three, equal, purple, spatulate, 

 recurvate segments ; interior more elevated on a continuation 

 of the tube, and consists of five, very unequal segments; the 

 exterior two larger, round, curled, and of a pale rose colour; 

 the innermost one small, and running down the side of the 

 filament like a wing. Filament solitary, short, inserted on 

 the mouth of the tube close by the free, curved end of the 

 style. Anther simple ; grains of the pollen white, large, and 

 spherical. Germ inferior, oblong, very short pedicelled, 

 hairy, three-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the 

 bottom of its cell. Style growing to, or blended with the tube 

 of the corol. Stigma large, funnel-shaped, obliquely-incurved 

 or hooked towards the anther. Capsule short, turbinate, 

 three-sided, pretty smooth, size of a gooseberry, three- 

 celled, three-valved, opening from the apex. Seed solitary, 

 nearly round, smooth, dark grey, resting on a small, squami- 

 form aril, which is attached to and surrounds the short um- 

 bilical cord which unites the seed to the bottom of the par- 

 tition. Integument double ; exterior spongy, inner thin and 

 rather hard, adhering to the exterior, and to the perisperm. 

 Perisperm conform to the seed, horny, tinged with pale blue; 

 a fissure replete with a brown substance penetrates from the 



