branchlets flowerbeariug at the top. Leaves scattered, sub- 

 sessile, linearly subulate, underneath convexly keeled and 

 roughly furred, above concave smooth and dotted, deep 

 green, when bruised diffusing a strong aromatic odour, 

 lower ones spreading, upper ones close-pressed and imbri- 

 cate: petioles whitish, very short, fixed to a small decur- 

 rent tubercle. Umbels terminal, convex, close; Jloivers 

 numerous, small, rose-purple; pedicles capillary, furred, 

 purple, twice longer than the flower, bracteless. Calyx 

 twice shorter than the corolla; segments lanceolate, furred 

 on the outside. Petals 5, standing upon the hypogynous 

 basement, unguiculate, uprightly spreading; unguis or nar- 

 row part the length of the calyx, filiform: lamina? or broad 

 part oval, obtuse, the length of the unguis. Filaments 10, 

 inserted at the level of the petals, alternately barren: 

 barren ones 5, opposite to the petals and of the same colour, 

 linear, obtuse, concave, furred at the lower part, the length 

 of the ungues of the petals : fertile ones subulate, whitish, 

 of the length of the corolla: anthers upright, oval, obtuse, 

 4-furrowed, reddish. Germen globular, with two glands on 

 the summit, enchased in the glandular basement: style 

 straight, fiiliform, of the colour of the petals, of the length 

 of the stamens. ~ 



The drawing was taken in February from a plant culti- 

 vated in the greenhouse of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and 

 Milne, at the Fulham Nursery. 



