No, 361. 
LASIOPETALUM PURPUREUM. 
Class, Order. 
PENTANDRIA | MONOGYNIA. 
This is a dwarf bushy shrub, a native of 
New South Wales: we believe it was first 
introduced about the year 1803. Its pleas- 
ing flowers are usually produced in long 
succession throughout the greater part of 
the summer, and sometimes ud are fol- 
lowed by ripe seeds. 
It requires no very delicate management; 
mere defence from actual frost in the 
greenhouse is fully sufficient for it. 
The soil in which it flourishes with us is 
a mixture of sandy peat with a small por- 
tion of loam, and we have increased it 
(although but slowly) by cuttings. 
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