PLATE LXXII. 



STYPHELIA TRIFLORA. 



Three-flowered Styphelia. 



CLASS V. ORDER I. 



PLNTANDRIJ MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 



Perianthium. Calyx imbricatus, pcrfiftens; 



ioliolis interioribus longioribus, acutis, 



erectis. 

 Corolla tubulofa, quinquefida; laciniis revo- 



lutis, hirfutis. 



X?"arium membranaceum, lacerum, ger- 



men cingens. 

 Stamina. Filamenta quinque, tubo inferta. 



Antherae apice bilidae, verfatiles. 



Pistillum. Germen globofum, fulcatum, nec- 

 tario cinttum. Stylus capillaris. Stigma 

 capita turn, quinquepartitum. 



Fericarfium. Drupa quinquelocularis, fub- 

 rutunda, glabra. 



Semina, bina. 



SPECIFIC 

 Styphelia, foliis imbricatis, fparfis, glaucis, 

 ovato-mucronatis; floribus axillaribus, ter- 

 ms. 



CHARACTER. 



Emfalement. Cup tiled, and remaining; the 



inner leaves the longer!, fharp-pointed, and 



upright. 

 Blossom tubular, five-cleft; the fegments rolled 



back, and hairy. 



Hovey-cup fkinuy, torn, and furrounding 



the feed-bud. 

 Chives. Five threads, fixed into the tube of 



the bloflbm. Tips fplit at the top, and 



loofely fixed by the middle to the threads. 

 Pointal. Seed-bud globular, furrowed, en- 

 circled by the honey-cup. Shaft hair-like. 



Summit headed, and of five divifions. 

 Seed-vessel. A pulpy fruit with five cells, 



roundifh, and fmooth. 

 Seeds, two together. 



CHARACTER. 



Styphelia, with leaves tiled, fcattered, bluifli, 

 egg-fhaped, and fharp-pointed; flowers 

 growing from the lower part of the leaves 

 by threes. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement. 



2. A Flower cut open, with the Chives remaining attached, to fhew their infertion into the 



tube of the Bloflbm. 



3. The Pointal, (natural fize,) the Summit detached, and magnified. 



4. The Honey-cup, (magnified). 



The Styphelias constitute a very extended tribe of plants, indigenous only to New Holland; we are 

 indebted to the pupil of Linna;us, the celebrated Dr. Solander, for this generic title, which, (as Dr. 

 Smith has fairly obferved) is exprefiive of the habit o( this whole genus having its origin in grvBsXis, 

 harfh, or hard; a character which feems invariable in every fpecies that has come under our notice. 

 The S. tubifiora, although let off by Dr. Smith, in his fourth number of New Holland Botany, with fo 

 much grace, muft, (and we have no doubt of his concurrence) give place to S. triflora, which un- 

 doubtedly claims the palm from all its congeners hitherto difcovered. The only Specimen alive or 

 dead, and from which our figure was taken, of this plant, which has come to our knowledge, is to be 

 found in the extenfive collection of G. Hibbert, Elq. Clapham-common; from whofe exertions the 

 exotic collections of this kingdom, are likely to acquire fuch confiderable additions. 



The S. triflora was raifed from feed at Clapham in ljg6, but did not flower till this year, in the 

 month of June, continuing in bloflbm through July, and part of Auguft. It grows to the height of 

 near thiee feet, branching but little; the whole ftem being hid by the leaves. Mr. Allen the gardener, 

 to whofe kind communications we are much indebted, informs us he has kept it in peat earth, and 

 t!;at he thinks it is to be raifed by cuttings. 



