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CORREA. 
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Smith, in Transact. Linn. Soc . iv. 219. 
Calyx monophyllous, cup-shaped, truncate and toothless or 4-8-toothed or 4-8-lobed. Petals 4, 
sessile, valvate in sestivation, deciduous, free or usually with exception of the apex connate into a 
tube. Stamens 8, all fertile. Filaments free, straight, Anthers ellipsoid or ovate, erect, with introrse 
longitudinal dehiscence, exappendiculate. Ovaries 4, inserted on a short slightly sinuate and promi¬ 
nently 8-ridged disk. Ovules 2, affixed at the interior angle of the ovary; the upper one ascendent; 
the lower one descendent. Styles 4, united into 1. Stigmas coherent or rarely divergent. Carpels 
normally 4, bivalved, 1-2- rarely 3-seeded. Endocarp seceding, cartilaginous, bivalved, operculate 
towards the base by the placental membrane. Seeds oblique-ovate. Testa crustaceous. Embryo 
cylindrical, straight, in the axis of a copious albumen. Eadicle longer than the plane-convex coty¬ 
ledons. 
Showy, strong-scented, mostly starry-tomentose, rather robust shrubby rarely arborescent 
plants, which occur spontaneously and copiously in South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New 
South Wales, rarely in Queensland and very rarely in South-Western Australia., extending neither to 
Central Australia nor to the western, northern or north-eastern coast of this continent, ascending par¬ 
tially to subalpine elevations. Branches and leaves opposite, rarely temate; the latter herbaceous 
or coriaceous, usually broad, constantly simple. Pedicels terminal or axillary, solitary, geminate or 
temate, rarely cymose, usually short, provided with 2 narrow deciduous bracteoles. Corolla frequently 
elongated, varied in color, although never purely blue. Stamens usually exserted. Filaments smooth, 
subulate-filiform; the petaline ones often dilated at the base. Carpels always blunt and tomentose. 
Seeds dark-colored.—Mazeutoxeron, Labill. Relat. du Voy. a la Recherche de la PArouse, vol. ii. 11; 
Antomarchia, Colla, Hort. Ripul. App. ii. 345 ; Didymeria, Lindl. ini Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 197. 
The genera nearest allied to Correa are Boronia and Nematolepis (Symphyopetalum). 
Correa alba 9 Andrew's Botanists Repository, 1. 18 ; Vent. Mahnais. t . 13 ; Bot. Regist. t. 515 ; 
Lodd. Cabinet, 1. 152; Lam. Encyclop. Metliodiq. t. 945 ; A dr. de Puss, in Mem. du Museum dJHist. Nat. 
xii. t. 21, fig. 22 ; C. rufa, Vent. Malm. 1. 13; Cand. Prodr. i. 719 ; J. Hook. FI. Tasm. i. 61 ; C. cotinifolia, 
Salisb. Paradis. Lond. i. 100; Mazeutoxeron rufuin, Labill. Voy. ii. 11, 1. 17. 
Leaves coriaceous, spreading, ovate, orbicular-ovate or orbicular, clothed beneath with an usually grey 
and thin tomentum; flowers erect or patent, solitary or geminate; calyx subcoriaceous, toothless or indis¬ 
tinctly 4-toothed, somewhat broader than long; petals short, white, entirely free ; filaments shorter or nearly 
as long' as the corolla, white, scarcely dilated towards the base; anthei'S red, twice as long as broad; style 
smooth; stigmas coherent; carpels ovate-rhomboid, glabreseent; valves of the endocarp upwards gradually 
dilated; seeds scabrous; cotyledons about half as long as the radicle. 
On the sand}' or rocky sea-shores, frequent from St. Vincent’s Gulf to New South Wales; also in 
Tasmania. 
A compact more or less ample bush, absolutely restricted to the coast, from a few to 6 feet high. 
Brancklets cylindrical, covered with a starry grey-brown in age nigrescent tomentum. Leaves provided 
with a tomentose conspicuous petiole, §-l \ rarely 2 inches long, entire, fiat or lightly waved at the margin, 
above scantily or thinly star-hairy and finally often glabreseent, beneath clothed with a thin grey velvet of 
likewise starry hair. Pedicels terminating very short peduncle-like branchlets, arising in most cases solitary 
from the axes of a pair of small deciduous leaves, thus geminate, 1-2 lines long, bearing two opposite small 
linear caducous bracteoles. Calyx cup-shaped, outward grey-brown tomentose, about 11 line long, broader 
