ing was made were communicated from Mr. Colvill's Nur- 
sery, under the name of Callistachys capitata. Wild speci- 
mens, collected in King George's Sound by Archibald 
Menzies, Esq., ?md preserve^ in the Bsm Herbarium, 
present two forms of leaves, one ovate and the other ob- 
long ; but they are obvioyaly only different states of the 
same species. 
The leaves, as represented in our plate, are much too 
acute. 
Branches somewhat angular, fuirowed, densely velvety, 
and ash-coloured. Stipules subulate, erect, downy. Leaves 
stalked, with a short, downy footstalk, oblong or ovate, 
retuse, with a little point, their surface elegantly reticu- 
lated with prominent veins. Racemes capitate-corymbose, 
stalked, axillary or terminal, much shorter than the leaves. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, very villous, with a bractea 
at base, in wild specimens ferruginous, in the garden spe- 
cimens silvery. Cordlla oirangfe-coloured, with purple 
veins. Vc.iilhini transverse, erect, flat, emarginate, Wir^s 
and iCee/ projecting, purple, the length of vexillum. 
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