Glabra is the first of the genus- that has presented itself 

 in our european gardens, and is native within the Colony of 

 Port Jackson, where it was found by Mr. Brown, whose 

 Herbarium contains likewise four more of its congeners, of 

 which that gentleman has favoured us with the following 

 account. Three, our plant being one, were observed by him 

 in the colony above mentioned as well as in Van Diemen's 

 Island, and agree in having a petioled Stipuled fbfiage and 

 icosandrous flowers ; n fourth 1 he? discovered on the 1 south- 

 west cwast of New Hoflattd, this had likewise a petioled 

 stipuled 'foliage/ but tne flowers were decandrous j the fifth 

 he observed on the north coast of the same ^continent (in 

 tlie bay of Carpentaria), in that the flowers were icosandrous 

 asln thfe three' first' mentioned species, but it differed from 

 all the others in having a foliage without either petioles or 

 stipules. Through these modifications the genus will be 

 found to unite with its confining co-ordinates at different 

 points. 



All five are heathlike shrubs ; with small, generally an- 

 gular, scattered, imbricated, glandularly dotted leaves, 

 mostly petioled, and furnished- with minute Setaceous deci- 

 duous siipuless white or purple axillary solitary bibracteate 

 flotoers, toe bractes membranous] keeled, persistent', and 

 coomate *t « tfae base j a superior catyx wit h cylindrical tube, 

 $-parted Hmbj aimed and persistent segments; 5 deciduons 

 ffitah; stamens (generally indefinite, seldom ten) all an- 

 tWrbeating, deciduous 5 a one-celled, twonseeded germen; 

 and a 1 otae^seeded' dry indebiscent seedvessel (Acheitopsis of 

 Mr. Brown). ' 



The leaves of our plant, when fresh, are perfectly cylin- 

 drical* but when dry, triangular, owing to the flesh shrink- 

 ing from the longitudinal nerves or ribs. 



The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col^ 

 ville, King's Road, Chelsea ; where the plant flowered early 

 in the summer; being kept in the greenhouse and treated 

 like toe Cape Heaths. We understand that it had been 

 very lately imported by Mr. RolKsori, the hursery-matf. 



"_ Mr. Brown thinks the genus should be placed next to 

 EuotKXa in the Linnean system. 



