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terminating one or middlemost nearly half as long again as the others. Flowers solitary, fruit stalks & the younger bark covered with brownish scurf. Outside of the calyx covered with the same Petals of a brownish purple (but too much upon the decay when examined) of a strongish scent; fruit-stalks with a few scales a little above the base.
Oct 1802
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Crowtheria gathered in B Mountains Oct 1802
Procumbent Leaves very small. Flowers terminal, on slender fruit-stalks, one or more on each.
A procumbent shrub, with hairy branches, Leaves scattered thickly covering the younger branches, about ½ an inch in length, twisted, rolled back at the edges, so as to appear cylindrical, on short foot stalks, with very minute prominences, ending in an awned point. Flowers terminating the little branches; fruit-stalks very slender, about ¾ of an inch long, solitary, in pairs, or threes, or some of them supporting 1, 2, or 3, flowers, or solitary & with only 1 flower. Calyx smooth, Petals, standard light orange with a deep bright red semicircular toothed ring at the base, Wings light orange, tinged with pink towards the base. Keel of a bright pink at the end. Germen hairy; fruit stalks with small scales, disposed variously.
Oct 1802
I am almost certain I have since seen it growing erect.