No. 228. 
STENANTHERA PINIFOLIA. 
Class, Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This is a handsome plant with rigid, 
glaucous, sharp pointed leaves. The flowers 
are very beautiful, a good deal like some of 
the heaths, but the corolla is covered half 
its length with the scaly calyx. 
It is a native of New South Wales, 
whence it was introduced about the year 
1811. The flowers soon drop, but, as they 
do not all come out at once, a succession 
is preserved for a considerable time; and 
our plants remained in bloom from October 
to January. We have increased it by cut- 
tings: it thrives in sandy peat soil with a 
small quantity of loam intermixed. 
