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LECHENAULTIA formosa. 
Handsome Lechenaultia. 
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Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. GOODENOVIA, Brown prodr, 573, 
Tribus I. Semina indefinita. 
LECHENAULTIA. Calyx superus. Corolla tubo hinc longitudinaliter fisso. 
Anthere sub anthesi cohwrentes. Pollinis granula composita. Stigma obsoletum, in 
fundo indusii bilabiati. Capsuda prismatica, bilocularis, 4-valvis, valvis oppositis me- 
dio septiferis. Semina cubica v. cylindracea, nucamentacea.— Frutienli (rard Herbe,) 
glabri, foliis angustis, integerrimis, Flores avillares v. terminales, subsolitarii. Brown 
prodr, p. 581. 
Sect. I, Fruticuli ericifolii, Flores axillares v. terminales. Capsula valvata, Se- 
mina cubica. 
L, formosa,* floribus axillaribus solitariis ebracteatis nutantibus, corollis bilabiatis un- 
dique glabris: labio superiora rotundato integro: inferiora tripartita; laciniis 
cuneatis, filamentis glabris. 
Lechenaultia formosa, Brown prodr. p.581. Reem. et Schult, syst. 5.p.34. Spreng. syst. 
1. p.719. Botan. regist.916, non Bot, mag. 
A bushy little Heath-like suffrutescent plant, thickly clothed 
with small evergreen leaves: branches slender, erect or slightly 
spreading, of a purplish tinge, pubescent when young, but be- 
coming at length smooth. Leaves numerous, scattered, succu- 
lent, narrowly linear, blunt, slightly pubescent when old, which 
gives them a glaucous appearance ; when young densely pubes- 
cent, slightly recurved. Flowers axillary, solitary, of a bright 
scarlet, tinged with orange, nodding, without bractes. Calyw 
5-parted, the laciniz narrow, acute, sharply keeled, succulent, 
smooth, straight, spreading. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped, smooth 
and glossy ; tube split longitudinally at the back, but joined near 
the point, about the length of the lobes of the lower lip, densely 
bearded on the inside at the base: wpper lip concave, rounded 
at the point, mucronate, slightly winged: lower ip three-part- 
ed, the laciniz winged, longer than broad, wedge shaped, nar- 
rowing to the base, the points hollow, mucronate, and the wings 

* L, oblata, floribus axillaribus solitariis ebracteatis subnutantibus, corollis bila- 
biatis extus hirsuto-pubescentibus: labio superiora biloba: inferiora tripartita; la- 
ciniis oblatis, filamentis villosis. 
Lechenaultia formosa, Sims Bofan, magrz. 2600, excl, synonym. 
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