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TEMPLETONIA retusa. 
Wedged-leaved Templetonia. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lucuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. VI. Parituionacem, 
Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552. 
 TEMPLETONIA. Cal. ebracteatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus parim 
inzequalibus. Carina oblonga. Stam. omnia connexa, antheris uniformibus. 
Legumen pedicellatum, plano-compressum, polyspermum. Semina strophi- 
olata. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 269. 
Templetonia retusa. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 269. 
Rafnia retusa. Venten. malmais. 53. 
Frutex erectus, ramosus: rami angulosi, foliosi, cinereo-virentes, glabri. 
Fol. alterna, pata, | etiolata, stépulata, .cuneata, integerrima, levitér emar- 
ginata cum apiculo brevt inconspicuo, glabra, coriacea, plana, persistentia, 
supra profundeé viridia, infra pallidiora : petioli articulati, decurrentes, cor- 
rugati, brevissimi, albicantes: stipule parti inferiori petioli adnate, erecta, 
ovales, acute, membranose, subrufa, brevissime, citd decidue. Pedicelli 
axillares, solitarii, uniflori, erectt, glabri, virentes, longitudine dimidium folii 
subequantes, medio bibracteati. Flores erecti, punicei, magnitudine feré 
Kennepi rubicunde: bracteze opposite, ovales, obtuse, subciliate, brevis- 
sime. Cal. campanulatus, glaber, virens, limbo bilabiato: labium superius 
ovale, obtusum, emarginatum; inferius é segmentis 3 paritm profundis, ine- 
qualibus, medio longiore acuto. Pet. brevi-unguiculata: vex. pariim reflecum, 
ovali-oblongum, obtusum cum apiculo inconspicuo, planum, striatum: ale 
vexillo subequilonge, recta, oblonge, obtuse: car. atis obtecta nonnihilimque 
brevior, & petalis duobus oblongis superné incurvescentibus, obtusis. fil, 
monadelpha: anth. parve, sulphuree. Germ. lineare, glabrum, virens, brevi- 
pedicellatum: stylus filiformis, persistens, stigmate capitato. Sem. 8-10. 
A handsome species, first observed by Mr. Brown on 
the south-west coast of New Holland. Introduced by 
Mr. Peter Good in 1803. 
The drawing was taken at Mr. Lee’s nursery, Hammer- 
smith; where it is cultivated in the greenhouse, and flowers 
about April and May. 
A tallish branching upright shrub: branches angular, 
leafy, cinereously green, smooth. Leaves scattered, not 
Spreading much, petioled, stipulate, cuneate, quite entire, 
slightly notched at the end where there is a small short in- 
conspicuous point, smooth, coriaceous, flat, evergreen, deep 
green above, paler underneath: petioles jointed, decurrent, 
wrinkled, very short, whitish: stipules adherent to the lower 
