Lasiopetalum
(from lasios, woolly, and petalon, a petal; in reference to the under surface of the petals and leaves being clothed with a rusty indumentum). Including Corethrostylis. ORD. Sterculiaceae. A genus comprising about twenty-five species of greenhouse evergreen shrubs, natives of extra-tropical Australia. Racemes few-flowered, rarely cymose-ramose, opposite the leaves or axillary. Leaves alternate, pseudo-verticillate, or rarely almost opposite, entire, dentate, sinuate, or rarely lobed. The species requires similar treatment to that recommended for Phylica (which see). L. Baueri (Bauer's). fl. white, few, in short, pedunculate, reflexed racemes, rarely branching into cymes. Spring. l. on short petioles, linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, mostly 1in. to 2in. long; the margins revolute, coriaceous, glabrous or minutely tomentose above, white or rusty-tomentose beneath. Branches hoary. 1868.
L. bracteatum (bracteate). This is the correct name of the plant described in this work as Corethrostylis bracteata.
L. dumosum (straggling). A synonym of Rulingia hermanniaefolia. L. ferrugineum (rusty). fl. dark purple, small. June. l. shortly-stalked, narrow-lanceolate or oblong-linear. Young branches hoary or rusty with a short tomentum. 1791. A tall shrub. (B. M. 1766).
L. macrophyllum (large-leaved). fl. pale green; calycine segments glabrous inside; bracts three, lanceolate-elliptic. May. l. ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, three-nerved. h. 5ft. 1835. (B. M. 3908.)