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sometimes simple, lying over the stigma. Leaves entire, their 

 margins naked or ciliated. — Herbaceous plants ; natives of swamps 

 in New Holland. 



STYLIDIUM. 



Gen. Char. (Gynandria Diandria.) Calyx two-lipped ; corolla 

 irregular, five-cleft, the fifth segment dissimilar ; column recli- 

 nate, with a double bend ; anthers with two spreading lobes ; 

 capsule two-celled. 



The name is derived from the Greek for column. A genus 

 of pretty little New Holland plants suitable to the green- 

 house ; they are singular from the column being bent, and 

 irritable when touched. The species hirsutum, lineare, gra- 

 minifolium, joilostim, Armeria, scandens, glandulosum, cilia- 

 turn, have been introduced, with many others, into cultivation 

 here. S. saxifragoides is exceedingly pretty, with dense tufts 

 of narrow yellow-green leaves, tinged with purple, lying close 

 to the ground ; from these proceeds the flower-stalk, bearing 

 flowers the calyx of which has oblong red lobes, and the 

 corolla large, and of a creamy yellow; the style is much 

 bent and is red. S. mucronifolium is from the Swan River, 

 and the flower is of a much brighter yellow than the last, 

 and has orange marks round the mouth ; it is particularly 

 pretty. Besides these there are adnatum, androsacea, bel- 



