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EUTAXIA BAXTER! 



(Baxter's Eutaxia.) 



LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LEGUMINOSjE. — (JllSS.) 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Eutaxia (R. Brown.) Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore subemarginato, inferiore trifido 

 Corolla vexilli lamina paulb latiore quam longa. Ovarium dispermum. Stylus uncinatus. 

 Stigma capitatum. Legumen modice ventricosum. Semina strophiolata. Frutices Australasici, 

 glabri ; foliis simplicibus, oppositis. 



Calyx two-lipped ; the upper lip notched, the lower one divided into three parts. Corolla 

 with the lamina of the standard a little broader than it is long. Ovarium two-seeded. Style 

 hooked. Stigma capitate. Legume moderately bellying. Seeds with a fungous appendage at 

 the hilum. Shrubs, natives of New Holland, smooth ; leaves simple, opposite.' — Be Candolle's 

 Prodromus, vol. ii, p. 109. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



E. Baxteri ; laxe ramosa ; foliis oppositis, vel ternis, coriaceis, obovatis, mucronatis, venosis ; 

 floribus axillaribus, ternis ; bracteis minutis. 



Stem loosely branched ; leaves opposite, or in threes, leathery, inversely ovate, mucronate, 

 veined ; flowers axillary, in threes ; bracts minute. — Eutaxia Baxteri Hort. 



Descr. — Stem from four to six feet high, smooth, covered with a brownish epidermis. 

 Leaves opposite, in threes, or in some branches scattered, obovate, leathery, strongly mucronate, 

 edges membranaceous, decurrent, veined, veins more evident on the upper than on the under 

 surface. Flowers pedicellate, in threes, in the axils of the leaves, orange, marked with orange 

 brown, pedicels equal to the length of the flower. Bracts linear, situate about the middle of 

 the pedicel. Calyx smooth, scarious at the edges. Stamens ten, smooth, thickening towards 

 the base. Anthers two-celled. Style bent. Stigma capitate. Ovarium woolly. 



An evergreen, and by no means handsome in its mode of growth, being naked 

 until near the top of the stem, when it sends off several long, rambling branches : 

 but notwithstanding, its foliage and inflorescence form a pleasing addition to the 

 green-house. There is but one species of this genus besides the one now figured, 

 .with which it may easily be confounded, depending on the character in De Can- 

 dolle's Prodromus. It is, however, readily distinguished by its leaves being much 

 broader, more decidedly obovate, rigidly coriaceous, scarious at the edges, and 



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