PLATE CCCXII. 
. ae . Sry. PHEL Leo VI REL DES, 
a oo Green-flowered Styphelia. 
Bh cc “CLASS V. ORDER I. 
- PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIA L GENERIC CHARACTER. 
s pairs imbricatus. - Gort tubulofa. Sta- |) Cer tiled. Bloffom tubular. Chives inferted 
en into the mouth of the bloffom. A pulpy 
berry with five cells. Seeds by twos. 3 
See SrypHeLia TRIFLORA. Pl. LXXII. Vol. ky “a 
Lae ae + a SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ; 7 - a4 
cat aoe Siypelia foliis utrinque acuminatis, obliquis, | Styphelia with leaves tapered to both ends, ob- i 
“ae ; acutis, glaberrimis; floribus axillaribus, fo- lique, pointed, very fmooth; flowers grow _ ‘ 
litariis, viridibus. — from the infertion of the inti folitary” Ae 
ae : and green. abet 
| REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
oe a j 1, The Cup of a flower, natural fize, 
a 2. A Bloffom, with the Chives in their place, cut open. 
: ‘- 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, the Summit magnified. 
ae ‘Yaw of ‘hd aie aes New Holland have excited more admiration than the Styphelias; the 8. tabi- 
flora figured in the New Holland botany of Dr. Smith, the S. triflora given in the firft Vol, of this. 
_work, our prefent plant, together with the numerous other fpecies already known from dried ee 
_mens, lead us to conjecture that the genus is as copious as any, Bankfia not excepted, from that 
country. This plant grows to the height of two feet, or more; the flowers nearly covering thes, : 
| bennches: 2 ‘Iti is rather delicate, Lee e but little water, in 4 the winter months ; as it is ares cig 
rs Rifiebtient 
: of Siyphcli, the oir fone ‘ti received sy ben Lec and Ket 
ew Holl : 5 te x ae 
