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STENANTHERA pinifolia. 
Fir-leaved Stenanthera. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Epacrinem. Brown prodr. 535. Sect. I. Germinis loculi 
monospermi. Pericarpium clausum, raro capsulare (?) = I} 
STENANTHERA. Cal. 5-partitus, multibracteatus, persistens. Cor. 
hypogyna monopetala, tubulosa, tubo calyce duplo longiore, ventricoso, . 
intis absque fasciculis villorum; limbo 5-diviso, brevi, patenti, semibar- 
bato. Fil. laciniis alterna, epipetala, inclusa, carnosa, antheris latiora; 
anth. simplices, receptaculo unico pollinifero, septum completum, raré 
marginatum constituente; indivise, longitudinalitér dehiscentes: pollen 
subglobosum parim angulatum. Germ. sessile, 5-loc. Stylus 1. Stig..1. 
Drupa subexsucca, putamine osseo, solido: sem. albuminosa: embryo teres, 
rectus, axilis, dimidio albumine longior. ' ; 
Frutex erectus.. Fol. alterna, confertissima, acerosa, Flores acillares, 
erecti, tubo coccineo, limbo flavo-virescenti. Discus hypogynus cyathiformis, 
integer. Brown prod. 538. ‘i 
Stenanthera pinifolia. Brown loc. cit. 
__ Bi-tripedalis subprolifero-ramosus, rigidus. Folia undique sparsa, rigida, 
subulata, supra hirtiuscula convexa margine revoluto, infra canescentia, mu- 
crone sphacelato pungente prafixa. Flores racemose aggregati. Bractes 
scariose, pallid@, calycem imbricatim cingentes, exteriores brevissim@, in- 
teriores textura calycis pariimque breviores lanceolato-acuminate. Cal. dimidia 
brevior corolla, convoluto-connivens, cuspidatus. Cor. subuncialis intis pilis 
albis subappressis laxitts pubescens, pilis juata infra apices nudos laciniarum 
in barbam densatis ; limbus erectus pro % corolle fissus, laciniis lanceolato-acu- 
minatis superne patulis. Fil. alba, plana, lineari-oblonga, duplo breviora limba 
cujus basi inserta. Anth. oblonga, posticé ab apice appense, breviores fila- 
mentis. Stylus capillaris, viridis, erectus, glaber, @qualis tubo: stigma capix 
tellatum, ustulatum: germ. globosum, viride, glabrum. 
This rare and elegant shrub is indigenous in the neigh- 
bourhood of Port Jackson, New South Wales. It has 
not been noticed by any botanist, except by Mr. Brown, in 
the work above cited. We met with it at Messrs. Col- 
villes’ nursery, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where the 
drawing was taken in last June. Cultivated in the green. 
house. 
The genus belongs to the first of the two sections of 
Epacridece, that which comprehends the genera more nearly 
allied to SrypHeLta, as distinguished from those nearer to 
Eracris, the type of the other section, A simple or one 
_ celled anther separates the members of this order at first 
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