Tas. 6845. 
BORONIA HereropHyLiA, var. BREVIPES. 
Native of South-Western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Rutacra.—Tribe Diosmex. 
Genus Boronia, Sm. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 291.) 
Boronta heterophylla ; frutex glaberrimus, gracilis, ramis virgatis, foliis v. sessi- 
libus simplicibus et linearibus v. petiolatis pinnatis foliolis 3-5 linearibus 
acutis petiolo elongato, floribus axillaribus fasciculatis pendulis, pedunculis 
2-bracteatis 1-floris, floribus subglobosis, sepalis brevissimis orbiculatis 1-cos- 
tatis apiculatis, petalis coccineis late ovatis concavis intus puberulis, fila- 
mentis 5 majoribus sepalis oppositis elongatis crassis incurvis glabris antheris 
nigris, 5 minoribus multoties brevioribus antheris flavis, ovario pubescente 
stylo columnari crasso. 
B. heterophylla, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. ii. p. 98; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. i. 
p- 315. 
Van. brevipes ; pedicellis flore brevioribus. 
This differs from the native specimens of B. heterophylla 
in the much shorter peduncles of the flowers, but I can 
find no other character whereby to distinguish it; and 
Mueller in his original description of the species describes 
its peduncle as about equalling the flower. It is a very 
beautiful plant, allied to B. elatior figured at Plate 6285 
of this work in many particulars, but differing widely in 
habit, in the larger leaves with few leaflets, in the brilliant 
colour of the flowers, in the shape of the sepals and petals, 
and in the long filaments. 
The plant here figured was raised from seeds collected 
by Miss North in Western Australia in 1881, when engaged 
in making the beautiful series of paintings of the plants 
of that country which form so attractive a portion of her 
gallery. It flowered in a cool greenhouse in April of the 
present year. It is probably not an uncommon plant near 
the Swan River, where it was first found by James Drum- 
mond, about 1842, and since then in places sometimes 
inundated on the Kalgee River, by Maxwell and others. _ 
Drscr. An erect much-branched shrub, said to attain 
the height of a man, with slender erect branches, quite 
Nov. Ist, 1885. 
