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Styphelia tubiflora
The shrub about 3 feet in height, with many straggling branches, the wood of which is very hard & brittle, covered with a lightish brown bark. Leaves scattered sitting, oblong, broadest towards the end, very hard and rigid, the edges rolled backwards, smooth & shining, ending in a short awn. Flowers axillary, towards the middle of the branches, on short peduncles. Cal. leaves spear shaped, ending in awned points, membranaceous at the edge tiled at the base with shorter gradating leaves Blossom crimson, club shaped, tube 4 times as long as the calyx, smooth on the outside, with crimson hairs within. Segments spirally rolled back, covered with long crimson hairs on the inside, very long when extended. Stam. filaments 5, being long, fixed to the middle of the tube, compressed, forming ribs to the lower half of the bloss. Anthers incumbent, oblong, versatile. Pist. Germen very small, roundish, green, with 5 cells, surrounded at the base with an entire membrane, with minute teeth. Style very slender, longer than the stamens. Summit a small knob - at the bottom of the tube are an immense number of long white hairs, which conceal the germen. The segments of the blossom are longer than the stamens when extended.
Aug 1802