ERIOSTEMON 
SCABRUM. 
(Rough Eriostemon.) 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RUTACEiE. 
Ieneric Character. — Calyx five-parted, perma- 
) it. Petals five, marcescent as well as the stamens. 
,j mens ten, the five opposite the petals shortest, all 
i rter than the petals, free, flat, hispid, fringed, 
ering to the apex into a thread, which bears the 
: hers. Anthers heart-shaped, appendiculate at the 
; :x. Style five-furrowed, very short, hispid or smooth, 
minated by a five-furrowed stigma. Fruit of five 
pels, which are joined together at the base, each 
containing one, rarely two seeds. — Don’s Gardening 
and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant a dwarf evergreen 
shrub. Leaves linear, acute, alternate, covered with 
minute asperities, many-veined, dull green, rather 
large. Flowers axillary ; peduncles one, sometimes 
two-flowered. Calyx regular, segments broad, bluntly 
ovate. Corolla polypetalous. Petals oblong, whitish, 
deeply tinged with pink. 
The present, till now unpublished species, is a member of an unassuming but 
ry attractive genus of hardy greenhouse plants. It has long been in the collection 
the Messrs. Loddiges, of the Hackney Nursery, who imported seeds from Sidney, 
3w South Wales, many years ago. Like E. buxifolium, it flowers long and very 
;ely in spring and summer, and though its flowers are not quite so large, it is 
perior to that species in being devoid of its stiffness, and rigidly formal appearance, 
t has not its lively green foliage. In habit it is rather dwarf, branches much, and 
a free and elegant manner. 
There are many smalhleaved, small-flowered plants, and which do not grow 
turally to a great size — of which E. buxifolium and scabrum are instances — that. 
icier cultivation, are grown to and maintained as very large specimens, as though as 
ch they were in a state of greater perfection. But it is an erroneous idea to 
ppose they are ; for, though in age free production of bloom distinguishes them, 
ey have lost that vigour, rude health, fineness of bloom, and robust disposition 
lich constituted their peculiar charm. And more than this, though their flowers 
s numerous, they are small and enfeebled, both as regards texture and brilliancy 
colour. The foliage, too, is produced small and sparingly, and the whole plant wears 
debilitated aspect. An occasional specimen of the foregoing description may be, 
r the sake of variety, advantageously kept, but such will not bear comparison with 
ose that are in the prime of their existence, delighting in rudeness of health and 
