ERIOSTE'MON CUSPIDA'TUS. 
POINTED LEAVED ERIOSTEMON, 
EXOGENRE. DICOTYLEDONER. 
{ pare division 
this Plant ste eags i 
: NATURAL ORDER, RUTACEA, 
pee Ser & = { Anifciat ua } DECANDRIA, 
: MONOGYNIA, 
pecaxpaLtz~ aM & Pont Stones | x OF LINNEUS. 
GENUS. Emtosremox. Saar. “Cader a autem Perata 5. Sramina 
Stylus not 
10, filamentis 
us. Carrenia 5 basi coalita. al Na i in Noculis : 2, ‘wat  phalea solitari 
BRYO $s atus, (A NDOLLE. 
PECIES. Ento otis oblongo lanceolatis subacutis 
glancescentibus apice atis. Racemis a 4-5. Frorr- 
BUS axillaribus terminalibusve. ‘Cuwnivenam. 
Cuaracrer oF THe Genus, Enrostemon. Caryx 5-parted. Pr- 
Tats 5. Stamens 10, filaments hispid, fringed or naked, anthers ter- 
minal. Sryxes very short. Carpe.s 5, united at the base. Segps 
ell. Emsryo ees Rapice long. 
‘THE SPECIES, ErtosTEmo? y cusPIpATUS. STRONG 
Fibeiiatbay at the edges. When held to the light 
they appear filled with rent dots, which are prominent glands, 
forming a roughness on the under surface of the leaves and stem, - 
even on the petals and anthers, _. towards their apex. FLowr 
stems axillary or terminal, true umbels of 4-5 pink acces 
Catyx small, of 5 lobes. _ Lobe 's separate below and adnate 
above to a connective which eyo ina point at the apex. In 
the allied genus Diosma this projection becomes glandular. Peras 5 
ovate lanceolate. STAMENS 10, in two rows, the outer alternating with 
the inner row, opposite the petals, shorter. PoLEeN orange colour, 
filament dilated fringed. Styiel,very short. Ovary, 5-celled, seeds 
few. This genus has close mY with the genera Diosma, Crowea, 
and Phlebalium. ie 
Popunar AND Geocrapuicat Notice. All the species of this ge- 
nus, hitherto discovered, are natives of Australia, which vast island has 
The foliage of many of its trees 
a vegetation almost peculiar to itself. 
RererEnce To THE DissEcTION 
4 Petal with two stamens, showing rence of pe tat stamen which in yrs 
ccauiaglia the ovary, showing their Sevigyeste situation. 4, Ovary with disk or aioe 5 a 
single stamen. 
