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7 HYPOCALYMMA robust um. 
Larger Peach Myrtle. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOOYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Myrtace^e. 
IIYPOCALYMMA. Flores axillares, capitati. Calyx tubo campanu- 
la^ cum ovario connato, limbo supero quinquepartito . Corollce petala 5, 
calycis fauce inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, breviter unguiculata, orbiculata. 
Stamina 20-30, cum petalis inserta, iisdem longiora ; Jilamenta filiforma sub- 
ulata ; anthera biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium infer um, 
biloculare (|-biloculare) ; loculis multi-ovulatis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma ca - 
pitatum (simplex). Fructus Frutices N. Iiollandice austro-oc- 
cidentalis, foliis oppositis exstipulatis, lineari-lanceolatis, mucronatis, floribus 
axillaribus sessilibus v. brevissime pedicellatis capitatis scarioso-bracteolatis , 
roseis v. persicinis. Endl. Genera Plantarum, no. 6306. 
H. robustum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronatis, floribus axillaribus brevis- 
sim6 pedicellatis, capitulis submultifloris. Endl. enum. plant. 50. 
This is one of those beautiful little Myrtaceous plants 
peculiar to the South-west of New Holland, which might be 
easily mistaken for small Almond or Peach bushes, so much 
are the flowers like them, and so seldom do we find bright 
rosy blossoms among the Myrtles. 
It is a native of the Swan River Colony, and has been 
raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. of Exeter. The 
leaves when bruised smell very agreeably of lemon. 
It is a greenhouse plant, and requires to be potted in a 
compost consisting of loam and heath-mould, with a small 
portion of silver sand. The pot must be well drained, so as 
to allow all noxious matter to pass off. Water should be freely 
* From yxo under, and KaXvyyci a veil, in allusion we presume to the 
bracts that veil the calyx from below. 
