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LECHENAULTIA oblata. 
Oblate-flowered Lechenaultia. 
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Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. GOODENOVIZE. Brown prodr. 1. p. 573. 
Tribus I. Semina indefinita. 
LECHENAULTIA. Supra fol. 26. 
Sect. I. Fruticuli ericifolii. Flores axillares v. terminales. Capsulavalvata, Semi- 
na cubica, 
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L. oblata, floribus axillaribus terminalibusque solitariis ebracteatis subnutantibus, co- 
rollis bilabiatis extus hirsuto-pubescentibus: labio superiore biloba: inferiore tri- 
partita; laciniis oblatis, filamentis tomentoso-pubescentibus. 
Lechenaultia oblata. Supra fol. 26. 
Lechenaultia formosa. Sims Botan, magaz..2600. excl. synonym. 

A pretty little suffrutescent Heath-like bush, much bran- 
ched : branches slender, erect or more or less spreading, scarcely 
pubescent, glossy, tinged with purple. Leaves numerous, scat- 
tered, spreading, the points more or less reflexed, sessile, very 
succulent, convex on both sides, blunt, slightly tapering to the 
base, glaucous, slightly pubescent when young. Bractes none. 
Flowers solitary, axillary and terminal, yellow or orange-co- 
loured, sometimes tinged with scarlet, at first erect, afterwards 
becoming a little nodding. Calyz of 5 sepals, the sepals succu- 
lent, straight, spreading, smooth, lanceolately linear, acute, 
sharply keeled at the back, purple at the base. Corolla tubular 
two-lipped ; tube split longitudinally at the back, but united at 
the point, copper-coloured, thickly clothed with a short hairy 
pubescence, which is at first pressed close to the tube, but af- 
terwards becomes spreading, densely bearded inside at the base; 
upper lip concave inwards, terminated with a sharp mucrone 
at the point, two-lobed, the lobes occasioned by the broad 
wing: lower lip three-parted, the laciniz broadly winged 
broader than long, obcordate ; the points within the hollow, 
and mucronate ; the wings sometimes toothed with one or two 
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