PLATE LXXII. | 
STYPHELIA TRIFLORA. 
Three-flowered Styphelia. 
CLASS ..Y. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. 
Gp tr hi. 
One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Pertantuium. Calyx imbricatus, perfiftens; 
foliolis interioribus Re EN acutis, 
eredtis. 
Corotza tubulofa, quinquefida; laciniis revo- 
Jutis, hirfutis. 
eClarium membranaceum, lacerum, ger- 
men cingens. 
Stamina. Filamenta quinque, tubo inferta. 
Anthere apice bifide, verfatiles. 
oy Germen globofum, fulcatum, nec- 
rio cinétum. Stylus capillaris. Stigma 
saan quinquepartitum 
--Perscarrrum. Drupa quinguelocularis, ae 
+. 
rotunda, glabra 
Semina, bina. _ 
SPECIFIC 
Styphelia, foliis sanbrloatis fparfis, glaucis, 
ovato-mucronatis; floribus axillaribus, ter- 
nis, 
EmpaLement. Cup tiled, and remaining; the 
inner leaves the longeft, fharp-pointed, and 
upright. 
Biossom tubular, five-cleft; the fegments rolled 
back, and hairy. 
Honey-cup ikinny, torn, and furrounding 
the feed-bud. 
Cuives. Five threads, fixed into the tube of 
the bloffom. Tips fplit at the top, and 
loofely fixed by the middle to the threads. 
Porntar. Seed-bud globular, furrowed, en- 
circled by the honey-cup. Shaft hair-like. 
“Summit headed, and of five divifions. 
Seep-vesseL. A pulpy fruit with five cells, 
roundifh, and {mooth. 
SEEDs, two together. 
CHARACTER. 
Styphelia, with leaves tiled, fcattered, bluith, 
egg-fhaped, and fharp-pointed; flowers 
growing from the lower part of the leaves 
by threes. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The 
tube of the 
4 The Honey-cup, (magnified). 
ement. 
2. A aac cut Anges the Chives remaining attached, to fhew their infertion into the 
om. 
3, The Pointal, (natural fize,) the Summit detached, and magnified. 
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ress or hard; a character which feems invariable in every fpecies that has come under our notice. 
os although fet off by Dr. Smith, in his fourth number of New Holland Botany, with fo 
— ~ matt, (and we have no doubt of his concurrence) give place to S. triflora, which un- 
> dl s the palm from all its congeners hitherto difcovered. ‘The only fpecimen alive or 
cad fish fi which our figure was taken, of this plant, which has come to our knowledge, is to be 
_ found in the extenfive colleétion of G. Hibbert, Efq. Clapham-common; from whofe exertions the 
= exotic colleétions of this kingdom, are likely to acquire fuch confiderable additions. 
The S. triflora was raifed from feed at Clapham in 1796, but did not flower till this year, in the 
month of June, oer ae in bloffom through July, and part of Auguft. It grows to the height of 
aie ching but little; the whole ftem being hid by the leaves. Mr. Allen the gardener, 
te fe Sind communications we are much neers, informs us he has Bee it in peat earth, and ss 
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