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Green-flowered Styphelia.
C L A S S V. ORDER L
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTEE.
CALYX imbricatus. Corolla tubulofa. Stamina
fauci inferta. Drupa quinque-locularis.
Semina bina.
CUP tiled. Bloffbm tubular. Chives inferted
into the mouth of the bloflbm. A pulpyberry
-with five cells. Seeds by twos.
See STYPHELI A TRIFLOSA. PI. LXXI I . Vol. I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Stypheha foliis utrinque acuminatis, obliquis,
acutis, glaberrimis; Acribus axillaribus, folitariis,
viridibus.
Styphelia with leaves tapered to both ends, oblique,
pointed, very fmooth ; flowers grow
from the infertion of the leaves, folitary
and green.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup of a flower, natural fize.
2. A Bloflbm, with the Chives in their place, cut open.
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, the Summit magnified.
FEW of the plants from New Holland have excited more admiration than the Styphelias; the S. tubiflora
figured in the New Holland botany of Dr. Smith, the S. triflora given in the firil Vol. of this
work, our prefent plant, together with the numerous other fpecies already known from dried fpecimens,
lead us to conjefture that the genus is as copious as any, Banklia not excepted, from that
country. This plant grows to the height of two feet, or more; the flowers nearly covering the
branches. It is rather delicate, requiring but little water, in the winter months; as it is certain to
perifli, if kept wet any confiderable time. Is propagated by cuttings, and muft be kept in a fraall
pot, proportional to the fize of the plant, in very fandy peat earth. Our figure was taken from a
plant in the Hibbertian collefilion, in the month of April, 1803. All the plants, at prefent in Britain,
of this fpecies of Styphelia, are the offspring of one folitary feed, received by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy
from N ew Holland, in the year 1791.
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