by Baron von Mueller at an elevation of 5000 feet ; and to 

 that eminent Botanist the Royal Gardens are indebted for 

 the seeds from which the plant here figured was raised. 

 It is one of the very few species of the genus with rose- 

 coloured flowers, which appear in the month of April. 



Descr. A heath-like shrub, with erect twiggy branches, 

 naked and scarred below. Leaves close set, uniform in 

 size and form, spreading horizontally, about half an inch 

 long, sessile, narrowly linear, rigid, acute, bark convex and 

 rough with raised points, margins incurved, leaving a deep 

 channel on the upper surface; young leaves silkily villous; 

 stipules minute, subulate or acicular. Flowers in a terminal 

 sessile head, of a bright rose-colour; bracts obscure; 

 bracteoles linear-lanceolate, appressed to the calyx. Calyx 

 five-lobed, silky, lobes ovate-lanceolate, twice the length 

 of the tube, acute, erect. Corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx; standard with rather a long claw, orbicular ; wings 

 oblong, rounded at the tip, about as long as the standard ; 

 keel rather smaller and narrower than the wings. Ovary 

 lanceolate, silky ; style filiform ; ovules two. — J. D. S. 



Fi<r. 1, Portion of branch and leaves seen on the upper side ; 2, section of leaf ; 

 3, calyx, stamens, and pistil; 4, standard; 5, wing petal; 6, keel; 7, pistil; 8, 

 section of ovary, showing the ovules; 9, ovule: — all enlarged. 



