to us, a native of South-West Australia, discovered by Mr. J. 

 Drummond, and sent home in his fifth distribution of Swan 

 River plants ; subsequently found by Mr. Oldfield, at Stirling 

 River. It has been introduced to our greenhouses by Messrs. 

 Veitch, of the Chelsea Nursery, from whom we received the 

 specimen here figured in June, 1864. It will be observed, that 

 it is not the flowers which constitute the beauty of this plant, 

 for they are small and insignificant, but the coloured involucral 

 scales, resembling a large drooping bell-shaped flower. 



Descr. A small very bushy shrub, with alternate, terete, woody 

 branches, and copious, decussated, and consequently quadrifari- 

 ous, firm, obtuse, sessile, glanduloso-punctate leaves, three to four 

 lines long, ciliated, patent, very much resembling some species of 

 Thymus. Involucres three-quarters of an inch long, terminal, soli- 

 tary, drooping, sessile, composed of numerous scales or bracts, of 

 which the outer ones are the smaller and more foliaceous, larger 

 than the leaves, imbricated, reflexed at the apex, and the inner 

 or uppermost ones are very large and rose-coloured, so as to 

 resemble petals ; these are oblong, obtuse, or retuse, all strongly 

 fringed, and obscurely three-nerved. Flowers very small, included 

 within the involucre and concealed by it. Florets each with a 

 pair of small bracteoles, oblong, acute. Calyx with five acu- 

 minate teeth. Style long, subulate, and terminating in a sharp 

 stigma tufted with hair at the base. 



Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Inner bract of the involucre. 3. Bracteoles and flower. 

 4. Flower laid open. 5. Stamens and segment of a calyx : — magnified. 



