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PLATE CCCCLÎX.
LASIO PETAL UM QUERCIFOLIUM.
Oak-leaved Lasiopetalum,
CLASS V. ORDER I.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointai.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
C A L Y X triphyllumj tomentosuirij persistens. Corolla
monopetala, lanuginosa, 5-fìda. Filamenta
5, germinis basi affixa. Germen
supemm. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis.
SPECIFIC
L A S I O P E T A L UM quercifolium, ternatum : foliis
duobus ad basin minoribus ; supra viridibusj
subtus nervosis, ferrugineis, stellatini
setis tectis : racemis floriferis longis, foliis
oppositis : corollis purpureis. Kami et ramuli,
pedunculi, &c. setis stellatim tecti,
ferruginei. Caulis humilis.
EMPALEMENT 3-leaved, downy, and remaining.
Blossom one-leafed, woolly, and five-cleft.
Threads 5, fixed to the base of the seedbud.
Seed-bud above. Capsule 3-celled,
3-valved.
C H A R A C T E R .
W O O L L Y flower witli oak-shaped leaves, by
threes; two at the base are smallest; green
on their upper surface, veined beneath, of a
rusty iron colour, and beset with hairy starlike
specks. Flower-branches long, and opposite
to the leaves. Blossoms purple. The
small and larger branches, footstalks, &c. are
beset with star-like specks, and of a rusty
colour. Stem low.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. Seed-bud, chives, and pointai.
3. A chive magnified.
4. The same shown from the outer side.
5. Seed-bud and pointai.
T H R O U G H O U T almost all the plants as yet introduced from New South Wales, there is a strong marked
leading feature that proclaims them of Botany Bay extraction, either in the upright strictness of their
habit, a hard harsh character in the foliage, or a rough and rusty exterior. Of the last description is
our present figure ; but it is nevertheless a very handsome plant, and the only addition (to this otherwise
solitary genus) as yet in cultivation with us. Labillardiere, in his Description of New South Wales,
has given a figure of a plant under the title of Lasiopetalum triphyllum, very much resembling our
quercifolium—probably a variety of it—or, if intended to represent the same plant, there must be
a considerable inaccuracy iti the delineation, Our figure was taken from a plant at the nursery of
Messrs, Colville,
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