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THE VAEIOUS-LEAVED LABICHEA. 
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find a fifth petal, in tlie form of a subulate process at the place 
panjang diagram^ and where one also would be if the corolla we] 
unequal as they are, appear to belong to the fifth or dorsal petal. 
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Diagram representing the flower as it is. 
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Diagram representing the theoretical stnictiire of the flower. 
As the memoranda which we made when examining the flowers of this plant do not coincide with 
se of others^ we now produce them literally. " Sepals 4, of wliich 2 are anterior and posterior^ 
late^ involute^ the other two membranous. Stamens 3, in front of the upper 
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uneoual : one horn 
double pore, the one as exactly crossing the other as a soldier^s crossbelts. The 
fine line passing through its mi 
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These plants are all Australian, chiefly inhabiting the western coast, but also met with in the 
region north of Sidney, where Sir Thomas Mitchell found two species. Tliat now figured was 
seen by Preiss among fragments of quartz rocks on the west side of Mount Bakewell^ and in rocky 
places near the river Canning in the Darling range, on the west side of New Holland. 
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accompanying figure was made in the Nursery of Mr. Glendinning, of Turnham 
