







32 THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
1—PRONAYA ELEGANS Hiigel. THE ELEGANT PRONAYA. 
Encravincs,—Paxt. Mag. of Bot., vol. xii., p. 99; and our Jig. 2, | Leaves nearly sessile, alternate, oblong-linear; margins revolute, 
in Pl, 9. glabrous above, and covered with very adpressed hairs below. Pe- 
Sreciric Cuaracter.—Suffruticose. Branches slender, twining. | duncles short, terminal, solitary. 
Description, &c.—An elegant little greenhouse plant, with close cymes of flowers, which continue expanding 
along time. Its branches have somewhat of a twining habit, but 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 trellis. 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. | 
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OTHER SPECIES OF PRONAYA. 
P. FRASERI Benth.; Syn. CAMPYLANTHERA FRASERI Jind. 
This species has very narrow leaves; and rather loose cymes of. violet flowers on long peduncles. 
P. SPECIOSA £ndl. 
This species has compound cymes above five inches in diameter of large pure white flowers. Neither of these 
species has been introduced. 


CHAPTER IX. 
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TREMANDREZ R. Br. 
Essentiat Cuaracter.—Calyx of four or five unequal sepals, which | pore or tube at the apex. Ovary ovate, compressed, two-celled, each 
are valvate when in the bud, and somewhat united at the base, deciduous. | cell containing one to three ovule. Capsule ovate, compressed, two- 
Petals equal in number with the sepals, and alternating with them; these | celled, two-valved, bearing a dissepiment in the middle of each valve. 
are involute in the bud, enclosing the stamens, and much larger than | Seeds pendulous, ovate, with a naked umbilicus, and terminated by a 
the calyx, also deciduous. Stamens hypogynous, distinct, two in front of | caruncle-like appendage, inserted at the apex of the dissepiment. 
each petal, therefore, there are eight or ten in each flower; filaments | Embyro cylindrical, straight, placed in the axis of a fleshy albumen, 
erect; anthers inserted by the base, two to four-celled, bursting by a | with the radicle pointing towards the umbilicus, not superior. (G Don.) 
Description, &c,—This is a very small order, consisting only of elegant little shrubs, natives of New Holland. 
GENUS IL. 
TETRATHECA Smith. THE TETRATHECA. 
Lin. Syst. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Cuaracter.—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. 
1.—TETRATHECA HIRSUTA Lindl. THE HAIRY TETRATHECA. 
Synonyme.—Tremandra Hiigelii. Hort. Sreciric Cuaracter.—Branches tomentose, sometimes bristly. 
Tincravines.—Bot. Reg. for 1844, t. 67; Paxt. Mag. of Bot., vol. | Leaves oblong, distant or opposite, tomentose below, hairy above. 
xill, p. 53; and our fig. 3, in Pl. 9. Peduncles bristly or rough. 
Duscription, &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, 


