Volume 4 — PLATE CCLXXXVII. STYPHELIA PARVIFLORA. Small-flowered Styphelia.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx imbricatus. Corolla tubulosa.

Stamina fauci inserta. Drupa quinquelocularis. Semina bina.

Empalement tiled. Blossom tubular.

Chives inserted into the mouth of the blossom. A five celled berry. Seeds by twos.

See Styphelia triflora, Pl. LXXII. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Styphelia foliis lanceolatis, oppositis; floribus capitatis terminalibus; corollis minutis, albis.

Styphelia with lance-shaped, opposite leaves; flowers terminate the branches in heads; blossom small and white.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The Empalement magnified.

2. A Flower, natural size.

3. The same, magnified.

4. A Blossom, cut open, with the Chives attached.

5. The Pointal, natural size.

6. The same, magnified.

This Styphelia, as are all the known species of the genus, is a native of New Holland, and was amongst the first plants which were raised from seeds from that country. It is a hardy greenhouse plant; grows very bushy, handsome in its foliage, and seldom exceeds two feet in height. It is propagated by cuttings, made from the tender shoots, about the month of April; and treated as directed for other plants natives of the same clime. Should be planted in sandy peat earth.

Our figure was taken from a specimen communicated by Mr. Cuff, from his select collection at Teddington, Middlesex; where it flowered, we believe, for the first time in England, last year, in the month of August, 1802.