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is generally of a bluish grey or green hue, and nearly of the same col- 
+ our on both sides of the leaf, a circumstance which gives a very mon- 
s character to the landscape scenery of that part of the world. 
The ~— odour bes _— plants arises from a volatile oil copiously 
d bark, and even the petals and stamens, 
wisi the form of eifirate glandular spots, appearing transparent by 
transmitted light, as in the Myrtle tribe. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Seeds of this scarce 
plant were first imported into this country by the Messrs. Loddiges, 
and young plants were raised I by a<* in es The specimen from 
which our drawing was tak h collection, at Hack- 
ney, in March, 1836. This species of Eriostemon succeeds tal in an 
airy greenhouse, free from the shade of larger shrubs. It may be in- 
creased from cuttings of the young wood, as these will readily strike 
root in sand, or sandy peat, under a bell-glass. Fresh sandy loam, 
mixed with me form a soil in which it may be successfully grown. 
DeERIvATION oF THE Names. 
Eriostemon from epvoy wool, and ¢rijywy a stamen, from the woolly = 
of the filaments, a chara Tr however, which does not occur in all the 
ies, i m0 e point of a weapon, a term used in alheiton 
to the acutely-pointed foliage of this species. The word Eriostemon has been 
considered, respectively, masculine, feminine, and neuter, by different writers 
SyNnonyMEs. 
ERtosteEMoN cusripaTus. Cunningham on Field's N. 8. Wales, p. 331. Lod- 
diges’ Botan Es Cabinet, 1249. Don’s Dictionary of Gardening and Botany, 
Vol. I, p.7 Decandolle Prodromus Regni Vegetabilis, L. p.720. 
