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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
1 — PRONAYA ELEGANS Hilgel 
Engravings. — Paxt. Mag. of Bot., vol. xii., p. 99; and our Jig. 2, 
in PI. 9. 
Specific Character. — Suffruticose. Branches slender, twining. 
THE ELEGANT PRONAYA. 
Leaves nearly sessile, alternate, oblong-linear ; margins revolute, 
glabrous above, and covered with very adpressed hairs below. Pe- 
duncles short, terminal, solitary. 
Description, &c. — An elegant little greenhouse plant, with close cymes of flowers, which continue expanding 
a long time. Its branches have somewhat of a twining habit, hut it is a dwarf plant. Botanically, it is easily 
distinguished from the allied genera by its very curious stamens, the anthers of which are bent almost double. 
The best mode of training this plant, is twisting its branches round a pyramidal trelhs. It should be grown in 
small pots, in sand, peat, and a little loam ; if put into a large pot it generally withers at the root. It is a native 
of Australia, near the Swan River, and it was introduced about 1840. 
OTHER SPECIES OF PRONAYA. 
P. FRASERI Benth; Syn. CAMPYLANTHERA FRASERI Lindl. 
This species has very narrow leaves ; and rather loose cymes of violet flowers on long peduncles. 
P. SPECIOSA Endl. 
This species has compound cymes above five inches in diameter of large pure white flowers. Neither of these 
species has been introduced. 
CHAPTER IX. 
TREMANDREiE R. Br. 
Essential Character. — Calyx of four or five unequal sepals, wbicb 
are valvate when in the bud, and somewhat united at the base, deciduous. 
Petals equal in number with the sepals, and alternating with them ; these 
are involute in the bud, enclosing the stamens, and much larger than 
the calyx, also deciduous. Stamens hypogynous, distinct, two in front of 
each petal, therefore, there are eight or ten in each flower ; filaments 
erect ; anthers inserted by the base, two to four-celled, bursting by a 
pore or tube at the apex. Ovary ovate, compressed, two-celled, each 
cell containing one to three ovulie. Capsule ovate, compressed, two- 
celled, two-valved, bearing a dissepiment in the middle of each valve. 
Seeds pendulous, ovate, with a naked umbilicus, and terminated by a 
caruncle-like appendage, inserted at the apex of the dissepiment. 
Embyro cylindrical, straight, placed in the axis of a fleshy albumen, 
^vith the radicle pointing towards the umbilicus, not superior, (fi. Don.) 
Description, &c. — This is a very small order, consisting only of elegant little shrubs, natives of New Holland. 
GENUS I, 
TETRATHECA Smith. THE TETRATHECA. 
Lin. Syst. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx of four almost equal sepals. Petals four ; stamens eight ; anthers four-celled. Seeds generally solitary. 
Description, &c. — The plants belonging to this genus are distinguished by their anthers having four cells, and 
by their stems being covered with glandular hairs. 
I.— TETRATHECA HIRSUTA Lindl. THE HAIRY TETRATHECA. 
Synonyms. — Tremandra Hiigelii. Hort. 
Engravings. — Bot. Reg. for 1844, t. 67 ; Paxt. Mag. of Bot., vol. 
xiii. p. S3 ; and ourjig. 3, in PI. 9. 
Specific Character. — Branches tomentose, sometimes bristly. 
Leaves oblong, distant or opposite, tomentose below, hairy above. 
Peduncles bristly or rough. 
Description, &c. — A very pretty greenhouse plant with rose-coloured flowers, which are produced in great 
abundance. “ It grows freely,” says Dr. Lindley, “ in a compost of peat, loam, and sand, in equal proportions. 
