LESCHENAULTIA SPLENDENS. 
(Splendid Leschenault'a.) 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
GOODENIACEiE. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character.— Calyx superior. Tube of the 
corolla cleft on one side ; limb bilabiate. Anthers co- 
hering at the time the flowers are expanded. Grains 
of Pollen compound. Stigma obsolete, in the bottom 
of the bilabiate indusium. Capsule prismatic, two- 
celled, four-valved, opposite valves septiferous in the 
middle. Seeds cubic or cylindrical, nucumentaceous. 
Mag. Bot., vol. viii., t. 151. 
Specific Character.— Plant an evergreen shrub, 
growing two feet high. Steins erect, smooth, and 
copiously branching. Leaves irregularly disposed, 
patent, reflexed, filiform, apiculate. Flowers produced 
in corymbs at the extremities of the branches, very 
showy. Calyx linear-awlshaped, nearly as long as the 
tube of the corolla, bractless. Corolla five-parted, 
segments cuneate, nearly equal, as long as the tube, of 
a brilliant scarlet ; tube paler. Stamens five, smooth. 
Style smooth ; stigma two-lobed, with a bunch of glan- 
dular hairs near the termination. 
When in "Mag. Bot.," vol. viii., t. 151, we figured L. biloba, we could not 
avoid expressing our admiration of this lovely genus of plants ; their slender graceful 
habit, erica-like leaves, and the profusion of rich coloured flowers, which with very 
little trouble they are made to produce, were pointed out as qualities which rendered 
them deserving of all the praise which could be bestowed. 
However high were the encomiums which, in vol. viii., we passed upon the blue 
species (L. biloba), we have now one perhaps fully equal, if not more than its match, 
in L. splendens, the subject of our present plate. When the plant is in full bloom, and 
literally covered with brilliant scarlet flowers, it is not easy to find an equal which 
would occupy as a shrub only a similar space, and of so humble a growth ; indeed, 
its dazzling effect upon the sight can only be equalled by some of the brilliant 
coloured verbenas. 
It is a native of Australia, and was introduced from thence by Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, and Co., of Exeter, through Mr. Drummond, who discovered it growing with 
several other species and varieties in the neighbourhood of Swan River, and who 
sent seeds of it to the above-named gentleman. 
It is a greenhouse plant requiring the same treatment as recommended for 
L. biloba, and is propagated by cuttings. 
The specimen from which our drawing was made was grown by Mr. Ayres in 
