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LECHENAULTIA BILOBA. 
(tWO-LOBEB LECHENAULTIA.) 
CLASS. 
PENTANDRIA 
ORDER. 
MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
GOODENXACEvE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx superior. Tribe of the corolla cleft on one side ; limb bilabiate. Anthers 
cohering 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- valued, opposite valves 
septiferous in the middle. Seeds cubic or cylindrical, nucumentaceous. — Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub, growing about afoot in height. Stems erect, smooth, 
slightly branching. Leaves in imperfect whorls, or irregularly disposed, cylindrical, acute, sometimes a 
little reflexed. Flowers produced at the extremities of the branches, of different shades of blue. 
Corolla five«parted, lower two segments smaller, all the lobes somewhat ovately-spatulate, broader 
towards the end, more or less deeply divided, and having a small point at the summit, rather reflexed. 
A blue-flowered Lechenaultia has been a subject of speculation and interest 
among nurserymen and gardeners for several years past, and it has been often 
asserted, and as often doubted, that plants of such a desirable novelty were in the 
possession of cultivators. This season has, however, put a period to all further 
disputations on the matter, by developing the charming blossoms of the species 
now first delineated. 
Whatever questions may have been raised regarding the relation of the present 
species to Lechenaultia before its flowers had been seen, had some colouring of 
propriety in the decided superficial resemblance of the plant to Burtoniu conferta , 
which, it is known, produces deep blue or purple inflorescence, and it was thought 
that, without the least intention or desire to be misled or to mislead others, the 
two might have readily been confounded. That there is a distinction, nevertheless, 
even in the aspect of the plants, has always been clear to those who have examined 
them. The leaves of Burtonia are quite glaucous, and the stems become a dark 
yellow as they harden ; neither of which characters is apparent in Lechenaultia. 
The foliage of the latter is, besides, longer, more spreading, and reflexed. 
