BEAUFORTIA SPLENDENS. 
Class. 
POLYADELPHIA, 
(Splendid Beaufortia.) 
Natural Order. 
MYRTACEiE. 
Order. 
POLYANDRIA. 
eneric Character. — Tube of calyx turbinate, 
b five-parted, lobes acute. Petals five. Bundles of 
mens five, opposite the petals. Anthers inserted by 
base, bifid at the apex; lobes deciduous. Style 
orm. Capsule corticate, incrusted to the tube of 
calyx, three-celied ; cells one-seeded — Don’s Gard. 
I Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub ; 
branches slender, rather straggling. Leaves oval, broad 
at their base, sessile, blunt, alternate, entire, smooth, 
light-green, small. Flowers in rather short clusters, 
scarlet. Stamens in rather long parcels, on a long 
claw. Style very long. 
All we know of the history of this plant is, that it is a native of New Holland, 
m whence it is stated to have been introduced in 1830, and that Baxter, a 
iveller in that country, and collector of its plants, is given as the author of its 
: ecific title. 
The genus Beaufortia was founded by B. Brown, and comprises a few species 
ly of interesting plants. The present member is free-growing, somewhat open- 
anched ; its branches are rather slender, and hear their flowers in the early winter 
inths. It differs from B. decussata, formerly depicted in our pages, in being less 
bust, and much more lively in appearance, especially when in bloom, in conse- 
ence of the difference in the colour of their inflorescence. 
A class of plants, of which the members of this genus, those of Melaleuca, 
tlothamnus, &c., are instances, in the greenhouse, and Inga and others, in the 
ive, do not receive the attention they are worthy of ; vested as their beauty is in 
lat is usually considered, viewing them in an ornamental light, the inferior parts of 
e flower, and many of them not being of a very showy character, they are passed 
er for more gaudy, hut less deserving things. 
Independent of their flowers, which are indeed highly interesting, and especially 
autiful, as is discovered when they are attentively regarded, they are distinguished 
a great diversity of habit, difference of foliage, &c., and they are very hardy : we 
ive known them, the greenhouse section at least, flourish and bloom under the 
trdest usage. A collection of plants with the style of inflorescence, alone, of those 
ider consideration, would constitute a fine group, and be most engaging. 
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