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SPHENOTOMA gracilis. 
Slender Sphenotoma. 
Linnean Class and Order, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. EPACRIDE. Brown prodr. p. 535. 
Subordo II. Ovarii loculi polyspermi. Pericarpium capsulare. 
SPHENOTOMA. Calyx bibracteatus. Corolla hypocrateriformis, tubo gracili: 
fauce coarctata; limbo 5-partito obtusissimo, patenti, imberbi. Stamina epipetala. 
Squamule 5,hypogyne. Capsula placentis ab apice column centralis pendulis, so- 
lutis.—Frutices, ramis dum denudatis annulatis. Folia imbricata, basibus cucullatis, se- 
mivaginantibus. Spica simplex, bracteis subtendentibus persistentibus. 

S. gracilis, ramis floriferis spica ovata multoties longioribus, foliis caulinis subulato- 
lanceolatis patulis recurvisve: rameis appressis. Brown prodr. p. 556. sub Draco- 
phyllo. 
Dracophyllum gracile. Ram. et Schult. syst.4. p. 386. Botan. magaz. 2678. 
Epacris gracilis. Poir. encycl. bot. supp. 2. p.556. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 629. 

A small branching evergreen Heath-like Shrub, of the habit 
of Sprenceiia: branches long and slender, erect or ascending, 
thickly clothed with leaves, the leafy stems hairy ; the flower- 
ing ones smooth. eaves recurved, cucullate at the base and 
sheathing the stem, leaving scars on it when they drop off: 
those on the main branches subulately lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
smooth on the upper side and hairy underneath, the margins 
fringed with long hairs: those on the flowering branches shorter, 
broader, and smooth, striate: on the flower-stem or peduncle 
they are lanceolate, taper-pointed, broad at the base, and pressed 
close to the stem. lowers white, terminal, in a close ovate 
spike, very sweet-scented. Bractes two, at the base of the 
calyx, about half the length of the leaf that supports it; striate, 
and very hairy. Calyw of 5 sepals, that are lanceolate, acute, 
hairy, striate, the points marcescent. Corolla tubular; limb 
spreading, saucer-shaped, the edges a little crumpled; mouth 
nearly closed: tube slender, about the length of the calyx. 
Stamens 5, inserted in the tube: filaments short, attached to 
