CUP tiled. Blossom tubular. Chives inserted into the mouth of the blossom. A pulpy berry with five cells. Seeds by twos. See STYPHELIA TRIFLORA. Pl. LXXII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Styphelia foliis utrinque acuminatis, obliquis, acutis, glaberrimis; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, viridibus. Styphelia with leaves tapered to both ends, oblique, pointed, very smooth; flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves, solitary and green. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Cup of a flower, natural size. 2. A Blossom, 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 first Vol. of this work, our present plant, together with the numerous other species already known from dried specimens, lead us to conjecture that the genus is as copious as any, Banksia 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 perish, if kept wet any considerable time. Is propagated by cuttings, and must be kept in a small pot, proportional to the size of the plant, in very sandy peat earth. Our figure was taken from a plant in the Hibbertian collection, in the month of April, 1803. All the plants, at present in Britain, of this species of Styphelia, are the offspring of one solitary seed, received by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy from New Holland, in the year 1791. [Illustration] PLATE CCCXIII. JUSTICIA LUCIDA. _Shining-leaved Justicia._ CLASS II. ORDER I. _DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Two Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, minimum, quinquepartitum, acutum, erectum, angustum. COROLLA monopetala, ringens; tubus gibbus; limbus bilabiatus, labium superius oblongum, emarginatum, labium inferius ejusdem longitudinis, reflexum, trifidum. STAMINA. Filamenta duo, subulata, sub labio superiore recondita. Antheræ erectæ, ad basin bifidæ. PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine et situ staminum. Stigma simplex. PERICARPIUM. Capsula oblonga, obtusa, basi angustata, bilocularis, bivalvis; dissepimento valvulis contrario, ungue elastico dehiscens. SEMINA subrotunda. EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leaf, very small, five-divided, pointed, erect, narrow. BLOSSOM one petal, gaping; tube hunched; border two-lipped; the upper lip oblong, notched at the end; the under lip of the same length, reflexed, and three-cleft. CHIVES. Two threads, awl-shaped, hid under the upper lip. Tips upright, two-cleft at the base. POINTAL. Seed-bud top-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, the length and situation of the chives. Summit simple.