LESCHENAUL'TIA FORMO'SA. 
BEAUTIFUL LESCHENAU LTIA. 
Order, 
monogynia. 
Natural Order. 
GOODE NIACE AS. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Native of 
N. Holland 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
1 foot. 
June, July. 
Shrub. 
Introduced 
in 1824. 
No. 1213. 
The name Leschenaultia, was adopted by our 
celebrated botanist, Robert Brown, now president 
of the Linnean Society, a gentleman of the pro- 
foundest botanical knowledge, unconscious of supe- 
riority. Mr. Brown adopted the name in compli- 
ment to his friend, M. Leschenault, the appointed 
botanist to Bauden’s expedition ; and the distinction 
by which he separated the genus from all others, is 
one of those minute, but unchangeable differences, 
which the botanist alone, with his microscope, can 
duly appreciate. Each grain of its pollen, notwith- 
standing its minuteness, is composed of four almost 
inconceivably minute granules, making it compound. 
Other parts too, of its organs of fructification, are 
equally interesting. Dr. Bindley, writing on an allied 
species, says “The indusium, or peculiar covering 
to the stigma, is highly curious, and much devel- 
oped in this plant, forming a compressed, two-lipped 
Purple cup, covered with soft down on the outside, 
and completely enclosing the green viscid stigma, 
which occupies the lowest part of its cavity. It ap- 
pears to serve the purpose of scooping the pollen 
out of the anthers of the flower to which it belongs 
304. b ’ 
