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TAB. 4196.

SCAVOLA ATTENUATA. Attenuated-leaved Scævola.

Nat. Ord. GoODENOVIEÆ.-PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character Cal. tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-partitus aut 5-dentatus, rariùs

subinteger. Corolla hinc longitudinaliter fissa genitalia exserens, limbo inde secundo 5-partito, lobis alatis subconformibus. Antheræ liberæ. Stigmatis in- dusium ferè in omnibus ciliatum. Drupa carnosa aut exsucca coronata 1-4-locu- laris, loculis 1-spermis.-Frutices suffrutices aut Herbæ perennes in Australasia, rarius in India, Senegalia aut insulis Caribais habitantes. Folia alterna, rarius opposita, integerrima aut dentata imo subincisa. Spicæ aut cymæ dichotoma ex axillis orta. Flores bibracteati interdum in axillis solitarii. Corolla coerulea, alba, rarius lutescentes. Cor. lobi alati sæpè fimbriati, tubus intus villosus, faux fimbrias apice capitellas gerens. De Cand. SCEVOLA attenuata; fruticosa erecta pilosa, foliis lanceolatis dentatis, bracteis subtendentibus integerrimis, corollis intus hirsutis, marginibus supra nudis, stylis villosissimis. Br. SCEVOLA attenuata. Brown, Prodr. Nov. Holl. p. 583. De Cand. Prodr. v. vii. p. 508. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 752. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. p. 163. nal and axillary, of several rather long, bright blue, slightly tinged with purple, sessile flowers, each with a bractiform leaf, and each again subtended by three lesser almost lanceolate hairy bracteas. Calyx with the tube oval, combined with the ovary, and crowned with an elevated truncated margin. Corolla hairy externally and beautifully ciliated at the margins; tube slit for the whole length above, exposing to view the stamens and pistil. Limb spreading, secund, of five obovate and margined lobes, waved at the margins; at their base are several pedicellated glands. Stamens much shorter than the tube. Style nearly equal to the tube in length, hairy. Stigma clavate; the indusium two-lipped.

Figures

Fig. 1. Flowers and branches, slightly magnified. © Thrifty Whiskers A shrubby plant, a native of south-west Australia, first detected and described by Mr. Brown, possessing little beauty in its mode of growth or foliage, but in June and July bearing rather copious spikes of bright, but light, blue flowers, which then give it a very pretty appearance. Our plant was reared from seeds sent by Mr. Drummond from Swan River, and probably gathered to the southward of that colony, toward King George's Sound. It is cul- tivated in good loam and treated as a greenhouse plant, fully ex- posed to the open air and rains in the summer, and housed in a cool greenhouse during winter. It may be increased by cuttings.

Botanical Description Shrub one and a half to two feet high; the lower part

woody, the upper and younger branches herbaceous, often tinged with brown, terete, hairy. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, somewhat rigid and fleshy, much tapering at the base, with a long dilated grooved petiole, which is still more dilated and gibbous below at the point of insertion, hairy, especially at the margin, with a few almost parallel veins, the margin entire, serrated. Spike termi- NOVEMBER 1ST, 1845. word fit thwold eroddig bus one fita et doitw sloidog boroorg vols diw diw nigaat -just had been im odanie Valling deomie