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CORRALA speciosa. 
Party-coloured Correa, 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
CORRAA. Supra fol. 3. 
C. speciosa, foliis oblongis, obsoleté ovatis, planis, apice rotundatis ; 
corolla cylindrica, erecta; stylo infra medium pilis radiato-penicillatis 
barbato. 
Correa speciosa. Donn. cant. ed. 6. 100. Aiton’s Epitome. 366. 
Andrews’s reposit. 653. 
Frutex habitu simillimus Corrmm virenti (supra fol. 3). Folia verd 
JSuscits virentia obsoletiis ovata latizs obtusata sublongius petiolata quam in ea, 
neque reflectuntur. Rami sepiis superne trichotomo-triftori. Cor. non pen- 
dula, subsesquiuncialis, diametro penne scriptorie majoris, distinctissimé 
bicolor, infra saturaté rosea, supra brevits vividé virens, ceterum omnino - 
virentis. Stam. parim exserta ; 4 breviora basi subspathulato-dilatata, con- 
cava, longiora infra intis sulcata. Pili in stylo tenuiores et longiores: stig. 
viride. 
In general habit this species strongly resembles the Corraa 
wirens of the third article of this work, but has an upright 
brilliantly two-coloured corolla, and a pubescent style. It 
has been omitted in the Hortus Kewensis. f 
Native of New-South-Wales, where it was first found 
by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander. Introduced in 
1804, Like the rest of the genus, yet known, in our gar- 
dens, it is a hardy greenhouse plant, and peculiarly suited 
to the border of a conservatory, where it flowers freely in 
March and April soon after virens; and, as well as that, is 
wholly without scent. A mixture of hazel-loam and _peat- 
earth is what suits it best. Multiplied by cuttings, which 
strike easily. 
We have seen specimens that have had a leaf with a 
somewhat depressed margin and convex disk; and others, 
as the present, where the leaf is entirely flat and slightly 
assurgent, in which the marginal indentation becomes more 
conspicuous. : 
The drawing was made at Mr. Knight’s exotic nursery, 
King’s Road, Little Chelsea, in March last. 
a A detached flower. 6 A stamen. c The pistil. 
