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STYLIDIUM LARiciroLiuM. 
Larch-leaved Stylidium. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA Nat. Ord. STYLIDEM, Br. 
Gen. Char. — Calyx bilabiatus. Corolla irregularis, 5-fida, lacinia quinta 
(labello) dissimili minore, deflexa (raro porrecta) reliquis patentibus (raro 
geminatim cohaerentibus). Columna reclinata, duplici flexura; Anthcris 
bilobis, lobis divaricatissimis ; stigmate obtuso indiviso. Capsula bilocu- 
, laris, dissepimento superne quandoque incompleto. — Br. in Prodr. Fl. 
Nov. Holl. 
Div. I. Capsula venlricosa, subovata, nunc sphoerica vel oblonga. 
Subdiv. E. Caulis suffruticosus, foUis sparsis, crebris. 
Stylidium laricifoltum; foliis setaceo-linearibus sessilibus pilosiusculis (vel 
glabris) fauce nnda, labello appendiculato. — (Br. suh S.tenuif olio). 
S. laricifolium, Richard, in Pers. Syn. PL v. ii. p. 210. — ^Juss. in Ann. du 
Mus. d'Hist. Nat. v. xviii. p. 19. t. 3. — Bat. Register, t. 550. 
S. tenuifolium. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 570.— Bot. Mag. t. 2249- — 
Smith, in Rees's Cycl. 
Stem 8-10 inches to a foot high, erect, simple, or throwing out one or more 
small branches from the extremities, nakeid below, above clothed with 
numerous linear-setaceous dark-green leaves, which are patent or reflex- 
ed, glabrous in my plants, slightly hairy according to Mr Brown. 
From the extremity of the stem springs a much-branched graceful panicle, 
about equal in length to the stem, everywhere covered with minute pe- 
dunculated glands, and, at the base of each ramification, furnished with 
a small lanceolate bractea. 
Flotvers upon rather short glandular pedicels. Germen inferior, oblongo- 
ovate, glandular, tapering below, surmounted by an imperfectly 2-lipped 
Calyx, of 5 erect, lanceolate, obtuse, glandular segments. Corolla irregu- 
lar, 5-cleft, 4 of the segments obovate, spreading, 2 larger than the other 
two, of a fine rose colour, yellowish- white at the base, with an imperfect 
sanguineous ring or border, the back of which has many pedicellated 
glands ; the 5th segment or labellim resembling a small heart-shaped de- 
flexed gland, with a thickened, deep red, minutely tuberculated margin ; 
the disk convex, greenish, smooth, above, at the sides having two spread- 
ing red horn-like processes. The tube, to the back of which this is fix- 
ed, is rather short, white, slit on one side. 
Column of fructification about as long as the corolla is broad, reddish-brown, 
filiform, compressed, with two curvatures, highly elastic, terminated by 
the 2 large, transverse, deep purple, 2-lobed anthers, beset at the back 
with many pellucid jointed white hairs. The lobes open longitudinally, 
and after a portion of the pollen is discharged, they spread, or even be- 
come reflexed in a remarkable manner, exposing, what was before con- 
cealed by the approximation of their lobes, namely, the hemispherical 
glandular stigma (Fig. 9.) Pollen spherical, yellowish-green. 
So admirably have the characters of this genus been illustrated, both 
by Mr Brown in his incomparable Prodromus of the Flora of Neio 
Holland., and in the equally excellent Illustrations of M. Bauer, that I 
should hardly have thought it necessary to publish the accompanying 
ligurcs, were it not that the extreme scarceness of the two works in que- 
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