89 
genus Calytrix, or as Mr. Schauer writes it, Calycothrix, of 
which a few species have occasionally appeared in curious 
collections, and one has been figured in this Botanical Register, 
t.409. They are however common bushes in New Holland, 
when not in blossom looking like small heaths, and remarkable 
for the singular structure of their flowers, whose parts are ge- 
nerally fringed with long slender hairs or teeth; whence the 
English name we have proposed for them instead of that of 
Cha-me-lau-ci-e-z. 
Tifty-nine species are enumerated, disposed in eleven 
genera. The genera Polyzone and Hedaroma are reduced 
to Genetyllis; and Chrysorrhoe, familiar to many of our 
readers on account of the figure published of it in the Appendix 
to the Botanical Register, is regarded as a form of Verti- 
cordia. Well may the latter name have been given to some 
of these charming plants, for nothing more lovely could ever 
have been found by the poets as a type of the goddess Venus. 
We understand that some of the species are at last in our 
collections, although they have not flowered ; and we cannot 
too strongly urge those who are in communication with Swan 
River to possess themselves of these most beautiful plants. 
184. BROMHEADIA palustris. 
When Mr. Finlayson was in the Malay archipelago, he 
found a curious Orchidaceous plant at Sincapore with the 
habit of Epidendrum elongatum ; and from specimens of it, 
almost destroyed by insects, which I examined some years 
since in Dr. Wallich’s herbarium, I referred it with great 
doubt to Grammatophyllum, under the name of G, Finlay- 
sonianum, (Gen. & Sp. Orch. t. 173.) This plant has lately 
flowered at Penllergan in South Wales with J. D. Llewelyn, 
Esq. who received it from Cuming, with the memorandum 
that it had been “dug out of a bog in Sumatra.” Having 
now had the advantage of examining a perfect specimen in 
flower, I find that although nearly allied to Grammatophyl- 
lum, it is in fact very distinct. 1 therefore avail myself of 
the opportunity of adding to the list of genera the name of 
Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead, Bart. F.R.S. whose investi- 
gations of the natural affinities of plants are well known to 
systematical Botanists. It may be distinguished by the fol- 
lowing character. 
December, 1841.—M. n 
