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species varied exceedingly in different plants, and that some of the plants were not nearly so handsome as the old 
L. Baxterti and L. formosa. It is, however, after all a very handsome plant, and well deserving of cultivation. 
It is a native of the neighbourhood of the Swan River, whence it was introduced in 1842. All the species of 
Leschenaultia require exactly the same treatment as Heaths. They should be grown in a mixture of peat and 
vegetable mould, and should have their shoots occasionally stopped to force them to send out numerous branches 
so as to form compact bushes. 


OTHER SPECIES OF LESCHENAULTIA. 
L. SPLENDENS Dec. 
This is an extremely beautiful evergreen plant, growing about two feet high, and bearing a profusion of 
brilliant scarlet flowers, which are produced in corymbs at the extremities of the branches. It is a native of the 
neighbourhood of the Swan River, whence it was introduced in 1847. 
L. ARCUATA Dec. 
This is another species also a native of the neighbourhood of the Swan River, whence it was introduced in 
1847. Its flowers are remarkably large, being nearly twice the size of those of the other species. They are of a 
bright yellow, and tinged at the tips with a purplish crimson. 
OTHER GENERA BELONGING TO THE ORDER GOODENIACE/. 
GOODENTIA Smith. 
This genus consists of numerous species of Australian plants, generally with yellow flowers. The handsomest 
species is G. grandiflora. 
VELLEIA Smith. 4 
The plants in this small genus are very nearly allied to the last. They are also all Australian plants with 
- yellow flowers. 
DAMPIERA 2. Br. 
This is a genus of very ornamental plants with blue flowers. 
CHAPTER XLI. 
ERICACE Juss. 
Essentran Cuaractrr.—Calyx four or five-cleft, nearly equal, | by a pore. Ovary surrounded at the base by a disk, or secreting scales, 
inferior, persistent. Corolla hypogynous, monopetalous, four or five- | many-celled, many-seeded ; style one, straight ; stigma one, undivided 
cleft, occasionally separable into four or five pieces, regular or irregular, | or toothed, or three-cleft, with an indication of an indusium. Fruit 
often withering, with an imbricated estivation. Stamens definite, | capsular, many-celled, with central placente; dehiscence various. 
equal in number to the segments of the corolla, or twice as many, | Seeds indefinite, minute; testa firmly adhering to the kernel; embryo | 
hypogynous, or scarcely inserted into the base of the corolla; anthers | cylindrical, in the axis of fleshy albumen; radicle much longer than | 
two-celled, the cells hard and dry, separate either at the apex or base, | the cotyledons and next the hilum. (Mindley.) 
where they are furnished with some kind of appendage, and dehiscing 
Description, &c.—The plants belonging to this order are very ornamental, but most of them, except those 


contained in the genus Evica, are hardy. 

