STYPHE’LIA TUBIFLORA. 
~ CRIMSON STYPHELIA, 
EXOGENZ, OR DICOTYLEDONER, 
Natural division 
to which Ser = 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, EPACRIDACE, 
a ae era: J g PENTANDRIA, 
MONOGYNIA 
| this psi oe OF aan EUs. 
No. 142. 
GENUS. Srypuepia. Smwiry. Catyx = iimironsiiins. bracteolis quatuor 
vel pluribus. CoroLta hypogyne, elongato-tubulosa, tubo intus juxta basim 
villorum fasciculis quinque, cum limbi quinquefidi laciniis reyolutis barbatis 
alternantibus. Stamina quinque, medio corolle tubo inserta, longe exserta, fila- 
mentis filiformibus, antheris linearibus simplicibus incumbentibus. SquamuLa 
CALYCIFLORE 
oF 
DECANDOLLE. 
hypogyne quinque, distincte vel rarius co VARIUM quinqueloculare, 
loculis uniovulatis lo pendu Strtus simplex. Stigma obtusum, quin- 
quesulcatum subexsycca, putamine osseo solido quinquelocu ‘ 
; ‘ ari. SE 
mina inyersa. Frutices Australasici, foliis approximato-alternis brevissime 
petiolatis mucronatis, floribus axillaribus speciosis, — unifloris rarius 
bi- tri- floris. Ewpiicner: Genera Plantarum, p. 746. 
SPECIES. ‘Srvrnera THB SFL.ORE: Smal _Founs lineari-obovatis mucro- 
natis supra Brown: Pro- 
dromus, p- 537. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, STYPHELIA. CALYX five-cleft, with 
four or more bracteolz at the base. COROLLA hypogynous, tubular, 
the tube furnished inside towards the base with five bundles of hairs, 
which alternate with the five bearded revolute divisions of the limb. 
STaMENs five, inserted in the middle of the tube, projecting beyond it, 
the filaments filiform, the anthers linear, simple, incumbent. Hyro- 
GYNOUS SCALES five, distinct, or seldom connate. Ovary five-celled, 
with one pendulous ovule in each cell. Styie simple. Stigma 
obtuse, with five furrows. Drupe dry, of a solid bony consistence in 
the centre, five-celled. SEDs inverted. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, STYPHELIA TUBIFLORA. SHRUB 
stiff, straggling, a good deal branched, the old stem smooth, the 
young branches often clothed with a short down. Leaves alter- 
nate, crowded, sessile, spreading, of a broad linear form tending to 
obovate, usually about half an inch long, stiff, entire, terminated by a 
rigid point or short spine, the margins turned downwards, the upper 
surface slightly rough, sometimes scarcely perceptibly so, the under 
marked with slight longitudinal veins. _ Flowers axillary, almost 
sessile, about an inch and quarter in length, turned downwards... 
BracTs six, the outer pair very minute, at the base of the very short 
