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STYPHELIA viridiflora. 
Green-flowered Styphelia. 
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Linnean Class and Orders PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Natural Order. EPACRIDEZ. Brown. prodr, 1. p.537. 
Subordo I. STYPHELIA. Ovarii loculi monospermi. Pericarpium clausum, 
raré capsulare (?) 
STYPHELIA. Calyx bracteis 4 pluribusve. Corolla elongato-tubulosa ; tubo 
intis juxta basin fasciculis 4 villorum: limbo laciniis revolutis, barbatis. Filamenta 
exserta. Ovarium 5-loculare. Drupa subexsucca, putamine osseo, solido.—Frutices 
erecti v. adscendentes, ramosi, glabriusculi. Folia sparsa, brevissime petiolata, mucronata. 
Flores azillares, nutantes v. divaricati,, speciosi, pedunculis unifloris, rard 2-3-floris. 
Squamule hypogyne 5, distincte, rard connate. Brown prodr. p. 537. 
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S. viridiflora, foliis obovato-oblongis obtusis mucronnlatis planis supra levibus mar 
gine param scabris floribusque divaricatis. Brown l. c. p.537, Hort, Kew, ed. 2. 
v. 1, p. 322. 
Styphelia viridis. Andr. reposit. 312, Rem, et Schult. syst. 4. p. 468. Spreng. syst. 
veg. 1, p. 655. 

A small upright evergreen branching Shrub: branches slightly 
pubescent. Leaves numerous, alternate, sessile, divaricately 
spreading, oblong or obovately oblong, bluntish, but tipped with 
a sharp mucro, flat, or the margins very slightly reflexed, of a 
smooth green on the upper side, and paler underneath, lined 
with numerous slender faint lines, the margins a little roughish. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, spreading, or more or less pendulous, 
reen. Peduncles short and slender, clothed with short scale- 
like blunt bractes. Bractes 4, surrounding the calyx; the two 
lower ones short and broad, one of them bluntly rounded, the 
other acute with two notches near the point, one on each side ; 
two upper ones longer, bluntly rounded. Calyw# deeply 5-parted, 
the lacinie lanceolate, acute, concave, pubescent at the points. 
Corolla tubular, 5-cleft, tube more than twice the length of the 
calyx, of a glossy light green on the outside, the inside clothed 
with woolly hairs, and a little above the base is 5 tufts of shagey 
down, below which it is smooth : laciniz revolute or rolled back- 
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