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Crowtheria parvifolia
Leaves very short, cylindrical, twisted; flowers at the end of the branches.
A low shrub, with wide spreading branches, & thickly covered with small leaves, which are variously disposed, solitary, in pairs, or in threes, scored underneath, twisted, on short foot stalks Flowers at the end of the little branches, on short peduncles, solitary, in pairs, threes, or several together, & when so forming a little umbel Stipule very small, 1 opposite the other on the middle of the peduncle, with such like others at the base. Petals orange. Standard with a semicircular toothed ring of an orange-red color Germen hairy, containing 2 seeds - Branches hairy towards the top. Calyx smooth.
Sept 1801
Crowtheria ericifolia
Leaves cylindrical, with a longitudinal score underneath. Umbels on fruit-stalks.
This beautiful shrub is about a yard in height, whose branches are thickly covered with fine slender cylindrical leaves, scattered, horizontal, terminating in a small