Lhotzkya
(named after Dr. John Lhotzky, a Vinennese botanist, who travelled in Australia). ORD. Myrtaceae. A genus comprising eight species of greenhouse evergreen Heath-like shrubs, limited to Australia. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate, solitary in each axil along the branches, or forming terminal leafy heads. Leaves scattered or rarely opposite, semi-terete, or three or four-angled, rigid, entire, glabrous or pubescent. G. acutifolia and G. violacea, the species best known to cultivation, thrive in a compost of loam, with the addition of a little peat and sand. Propagation is effected by cuttings, made from the young shoots when the base is a little firm, and inserted in sand, under a glass.
L. acutifolia (acute-leaved). fl. white or yellowish, nearly sessile along the branches. June. l. scattered, crowded, linear, mucronate, mostly about 1/2in. long, prominently keeled beneath. h. 1 1/2ft. 1843. Plant erect, pubescent. L. violacea (purple). fl. purplish, in the upper axils, forming dense terminal heads. June. l. alternate or scattered, oblong, very obtuse, about 1/4in. long, concave above, convex beneath. h. 1 1/2ft. 1843. Plant hairy, erect, bushy.