Guichenotia
(named in honour of Antoine Guichenot, a French gardener and traveller). Including Sarotes. ORD. Sterculiaceae. A genus containing about half-a-dozen species of greenhouse shrubs, confined to extra-tropical Australia. Flowers nodding, solitary, or shortly racemose; calyx five-lobed; petals five, small and scale-like. Leaves narrow, entire, with revolute margins. Guichenotias succeed in a loamy-peat soil. Propagated by cuttings. The two species here described are probably the only ones yet introduced. G. ledifolia (Ledum-leaved). fl. white; racemes several-flowered; calyx scarcely membranous, tomentose, the three prominent ribs on each sepal giving it a rigid, striate appearance. Spring. l. on very short petioles, oblong-linear, obtuse, mostly 1in. to 1 1/2in. long; margins much revolute, wrinkled, thick, and soft; stipules similar, but usually rather shorter and more sessile. 1868. SYN. Lasiopetalum Baueri, of gardens. G. macrantha (large-flowered). fl. purple, large, pendulous, in racemes of two or three. March. l. resembling those of G. ledifolia. 1847. (B. M. 4651.)