PLATE CCCCLIX. 
LASIOPETALUM QUERCIFOLIUM. 
Oak-leaved Lasiopetalum. 
CLASS V. ORDER. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIZ. Five Chives, Cie Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx triphyllum, tomentosum, persistens. Co- Empa.ement 3-leaved, downy, and remaining. 
rolla monopetala, lanuginosa, 5-fida, Fi- _ Blossom one-leafed, woolly, and five-cleft. 
lamenta 5, germinis basi afixa. Germen _ Threads 5, fixed to the base of the seed- 
— Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis, bud. Seed-bud above. Capsule 3-celled, 
3-valved. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
“anorebien quercifolium, ternatum : foliis Wootty flower with oak-shaped leaves, by 
~ duobus ad basin minoribus ; supra viridi- - threes; two at the base are smallest; green 
oS ~~ bus, subtus nervosis, feitepineds, stellatim on their upper surface, veined beneath, of a 
“Ss ae  Setis tectis: racemis floriferis longis, foliis rusty iron colour, and beset with hairy star-_ 
3 “Oppositis : corollis purpureis. Rami et ra- like specks. Flower-branches long, and op- 
ri pedunculi, &c. setis stellatim tece posite to the leaves. Blossoms purple. The 
— Caulis humilis, small and larger branches, footstalks, &c. are 
beset with star-like specks, and of a Fi 
colour. Stem low. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The empalement. 
2. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal, 
3. A chive magnified, 
4. The same shown from the outer side. 
- 5. Seed-bud and pointal. 
_ Tarovexovralmostall the plants as yet introduced from New South Wales, there is a strong marked 
-Teading feature that proclaims them of Botany Bay extraction, either in the upright strictness of their 
habit, a hard harsh character in the foliage, or a rough and rusty exterior. Of the last description is 
our present figure ; but it is nevertheless a very handsome plant, and the only addition (to this otherwise 
solitary genus) as yet in cultivation with us, Labillardiere, in his Description of New South Wales, 
has given a figure of a plant under the title of Lasiopetalum triphyllum, very much resembling our 
quercifoliam—probably a variety of it—or, if intended to represent the same plant, there must be 
a considerable 
imaccuracy in the delineation, Our figure was taken from a plant at the nursery of 
“Messrs. Colville. 
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