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BORONIA LEDIFOLIA. 
(LABRADOR, TEA-LEAVED BORONIA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
PROTEACE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx four-parted, or four-cleft, permanent. Petals four, marcescent. Stamens 
eight, the four opposite the petals shortest, all shorter than the petals, free, fringed, or tubercled, 
linear, usually dilated at the top, whence a very short thread rises, bearing the anther. Anthers 
heart-shaped, usually with a short appendage at the apex. Styles four, erect, smooth, approximate 
or joined together, terminated by an equal or capitate four-furrowed stigma. Fruit of four two- 
valved carpels. Seeds ovate, compressed, usually one in each carpel. Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character Plant an evergreen slirub, from two to three feet in height, branching freely. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, appearing in groups or partial whorls, small, downy below. Flowers 
axillary, solitary, four-sided when in the bud state, large, conspicuous, pink. 
All the species of Boronia are more or less interesting, and attract attention 
from the neatness of their growth, and their pretty pink blossoms. Their dwarf- 
ness and compactness peculiarly fit them for greenhouse culture, and for growing 
in pots ; as they can be placed on any kind of stage, and will, if judiciously treated, 
bear to be exposed to view on all sides. 
B. serrulata is perhaps most prized on account of the freedom with which it 
branches, the denseness and pleasing light green hue of its foliage, and the prodi- 
gality of its deep and lively pink flowers. B. crenulata^ a newer and scarcer 
species, is more rigid in its habit ; the leaves take a direction more parallel to the 
stem, and are of a darker and duller green ; while the blossoms are smaller, less 
aggregated, and not quite so showy. It is, however, an ornamental little plant. 
B. pinnata and denticulata belong to a very different group ; their leaves being 
much divided and slender, and the flowers liglit rose-coloured. 
B. ledifolia approaches both these classes in some respects, but it is separated 
from each in several others. Like B. serrulata it has entire leaves, and as in 
B. crenulataj there is a tendency to rigidity and straightness in the branches ; yet 
