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Crowtheria Sydneiensis differs from ericifolia floribus sefribicuse Umbels sitting.
This is a beautiful shrub about 3 or 4 feet high, variously branching, but commonly arising nearly from one place.
Leaves scattered, cylindrical, with a longitudinal score underneath, twisted, ending in a small awned point, but not prickly to the touch, horizontal, on short erect, reddish leaf-stalks. Flowers terminating the little branches, frequently 5 or 6 together, though sometimes only 2 or 3, forming a kind of umbel; fruit stalks simple, or divided, with a pair of small stipule in the middle, shining, and smooth. Calyx smooth and shining, the edges of the teeth a little hairy. Standard and wings of a light orange color, the former with a bright reddish semicircular toothed ring at the base, the latter of the same color on the lower part; keel of a dullish white, tinged with red. Germen covered with small hairs. Style ending in a hook. Summit blunt. Leaves about a ¼ of an inch long, in pairs, threes, or solitary.
Grows in Sydney. Flowers early in the spring.
Aug 1802