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965. GUICHENOTIA MACRANTHA. Turczaninow. An inelegant greenhouse shrub, with pale 
purple veiny flowers. Native of Swan River, Belongs to Byttneriads. Introduced at Kew. 
A singular-looking, rather than beautiful, hoary shrub, with large purplish flowers, at first sight not unlike those of 
some Solanum ; native of Swan River, whence seeds have been sent by Mr. Drummond to Kew, and reared in 1847. 
Our first Sowers appeared in March, 1852, in an ordinar greenhouse, The genus Guichenotia, so named by M. Gay, in 
specimens, It pie Pang — The shrub is with us two and a half feet high, erect, branched, 
Branches rcg رحا‎ "s ted down. Leaves downy, whorled in threes, linear-oblong, on very short petioles, 
entire, penninerved, the nerves ee at right angles from the costa, transverse, slightly branched, the margin revolute. 
Peduncles axillary, generally longer than the leaf, erect, few-flowered ; flowers one to three, drooping. Pedicels naked. 
or bearing one to two lanceolate distinct bracts: the hypocalycinal bract tripartite, eT leafy, veined. Calyx 
between rotate and campanulate, dull and pale purple, downy, veined, the five lobes acuminate. Petals five, small, 
squamiform, dark purple, one at the base of each stamen. Stamens converging into a cone sees the pistil : filaments 
subul anthers dark . Germen 5 i- 
ovate, acumi 
nate, downy. Style articulated upon the ovary, about 
equal to it in on slender, subulate. Stigma obtuse, 
— Bot. Mag., t 
566. E ALSINOIDES. Sims. (alias 
C. unalaschkensis Fischer; alids Limnia alsi- 
noides Haworth; alias C. sibirica Bot. Mag., 
with pink flowers.) A neat succulent annual, 
si with small white flowers. Native of North 
West America. Belongs to Purslanes. (Fig, 
276.) 
A small annual, with bright green succulent insipid 
leaves, forming patches eight or nine inches in diameter, 
and well suited to form a temporary covering to was 
places or borders that require to be concealed without 
being cropped, Its flowers are white, or in the Siberian 
variety pink, small, but pretty when open beneath the 
sun, It seems to be common all over North West 
liata, which is, however, very nearly allied to it. 
567. HAKEA scoparia. Meisner. A long 
slender-leaved greenhouse shrub. Flowers in 
yellow heads. Native of Swan River. Belongs 
to Proteads. Introduced at Kew. 
This species of Hakea i isa s nativo of fhe Swan River 
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