LESCHENAULTIA SPLENDENS. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
(Splendid Leschenault'a.) 
Natural Order. 
GOODENIACEjE. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character.— Calyx superior. Tube of the 
rolla cleft on one side ; limb bilabiate. Anthers co- 
ding at the time the flowers are expanded. Grains 
' Pollen compound. Stigma obsolete, in the bottom 
the bilabiate indusium. Capsule prismatic, two- 
lled, four-valved, opposite valves septiferous in the 
iddle. Seeds cubic or cylindrical, nucumentaceous. 
r ag. Bot., vol. viii., t. 151. 
Specific Character.— Plant an evergreen shrub, 
owing two feet high. Stems 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 
void expressing our admiration of this lovely genus of plants; their slender graceful 
abit, erica-like leaves, and the profusion of rich coloured flowers, which with very 
ttle trouble they are made to produce, were pointed out as qualities which rendered 
lem deserving of all the praise which could be bestowed. 
However high were the encomiums which, in vol. viii., we passed upon the blue 
pecies (L. biloba), we have now one perhaps fully equal, if not more than its match, 
1 L. splendens, the subject of our present plate. When the plant is in full bloom, and 
.terally covered with brilliant scarlet flowers, it is not easy to find an equal which 
fould occupy as a shrub only a similar space, and of so humble a growth ; indeed, 
:s dazzling effect upon the sight can only be equalled by some of the brilliant 
oloured verbenas. 
It is a native of Australia, and was introduced from thence by Messrs. Lucombe, 
^ince, and Co., of Exeter, through Mr. Drummond, who discovered it growing with 
everal other species and varieties in the neighbourhood of Swan River, and who 
ent seeds of it to the above-named gentleman. 
It is a greenhouse plant requiring the same treatment as recommended for 
j. biloba, and is propagated by cuttings. 
The specimen from which our drawing was made was grown by Mr. Ayres in 
