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STYPHELIA longifolia. 
Long-leaved Styphelia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIZA. 
STYPHELIA, Cal. 5-partitus, bracteis 4 pluribusve texturd 
calycis. Cor. elongato-tubulosa; tubo intits juxta basin fasciculis 5 vil- 
lorum : imbo laciniis revolutis, barbatis. J%/. epipetala, exserta: anth, 
simplices. Germinis 5-locularis loculi monospermi. Drupa subessucca, 
putamine osseo, solido. : : ; 
Frutices erecti v. ascendentes, ramosi, glabriusculi. Folia sparsa, 
brevissime petiolata, mucronata. Flores axillares, nutantes v. divaricati, 
speciost, pedunculis unifloris, rard 2-3-floris. Squamula hypogyne 3, 
distincte, rard connate. Brown. prodr. 537. 
S. longifolia, foliis elongato-lanceolatis apice attenuatis supra concavius- 
culis margine lavibus, ramulis pubescentibus. Brown. loc. cit. 
Caulis 3-pedalis, erectus, teres, numerose sed non confertim Joliosus, su- 
perne ramosus, badio-corticatus. Folia 2-uncialia, erecta, interstitiis pluri- 
mum longiora, rigidissima, angusta, lineari-attenuata, cuspidata fine pun- 
gente, concava, nervis parallelis densé striata, basi et in brevissimo petiolo 
villosa. Flores subnutantes, plurimi, virides. Pedunculi unifiori, in ramis 
supernt, axillares, solitarii, breves, villosi, bracteis squamati. Cal. her- 
baceus, rigens, tubuloso-connivens, acutus, nervulosus, infra brevitér cum 
corolla (qué duplo magisve brevior) conferruminatus. Cor. sesquiuncialis, 
penn corvina feré duplo crassior, subdiaphana, extis glabra, intus nisi ubi 
recondit germen villosa: lacinie limbi ligulato-lanceolate tubo % parte bre- 
viores  resiliunt hecce sub dehiscentiam nisit elastico, indé in gyros plures re- 
wolvende. Fil. corolle equalia, tubum adnato-decurrentia, ob recedentem 
limbum exserta, conniventia: anth. fuscescentes, a medio dorso appense, 
versatiles, secunde. Germ, conicum,; 5-gonum, basi cinctum squamulis 5 
crateroidi-conniventibus : stylus capillaceus filamentis altior et plurimitm gra- 
cilior : stigma capitatum. 
A rare species, and one that has not found a place in the 
late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, nor been figured in 
any work: nor had we heard of its being in any collection, 
until we met with it in that of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at 
Hammersmith, where the drawing was taken in March last, 
from a plant that had been raised from seed. 
Native of New-South-Wales; found by Mr. Brown in 
the neighbourhood of Port-Jackson. It approaches in the 
colour of the flower to viridiflora, but is very different in 
the foliage, which in that is obovate-oblong, flat, and about 
one inch long; not, as in this, tapering from the base up- 
wards, concaye and about two inches long. It is a woody 
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