THYMELACEiE. 



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LACHN^A. 



Gen. Char. (Octandria Monogynia.) Flowers in heads ; calyx 

 four-cleft, with an unequal limb ; filaments long, with an unequal 

 insertion ; nut somewhat drupaceous. 



The heads of flowers are very woolly, whence the name, 

 from the Greek. These are also Cape shrubs for the green- 

 house, with the heads of flowers generally clothed in wool. 

 The species are buxifolia and eriocephala, white, and pur- 

 purea, purple-flowered. Soil sandy peat and loam. 



PASSEBINA. 



Gen. Char. {Octandria Digynia.) Calyx four-cleft and naked; 

 style filiform, lateral, and long ; stamens inserted on the tube ; 

 nut one, coated ; seed one. 



Named from the Latin for sparrow, from the seeds 

 having an appendage like the beak of a sparrow. A genus 

 of Cape plants for the greenhouse, of which P. grandiflora, 

 producing a large white flower in May or June, is the most 

 ornamental; the rest are uni flora, tenuiflora, flliformis, ca~ 

 pitata, ciliata, and others, which have either white or straw- 



