of a lilac colour,, and of the most delicate feathery character, 

 the appearance of the plant is very striking. Planted in a 

 large tub, it stands out abroad the whole summer, and in 

 winter is kept in a cool greenhouse. 



It flowers iu July. 



Descr. A small tree, with spreading, greenish-brown, 

 angular branches. Leaves spreading, alternate, linear, fili- 

 form, acerose, three to four or five inches long, the young 

 ones forming tufts at the extremity of the branches, and 

 sheathed at the base by several long, imbricated, membra- 

 naceous scales. These young leaves are of the most deli- 

 cate texture, waving with the slightest breeze, of a pale-lilac 

 colour, and feathery from the copious soft hairs with which 

 they are clothed. As they advance in age, the sheathing 

 scales fall away, the hairs disappear, and the leaves become 

 harsh, and dark green, grooved above, minutely granulated 

 on the surface, and besides beset with numerous tubercles : 

 the apex is rnucronated. Flowers copious, sessile, axillary. 

 Calyx of four green, obtuse lobes, glabrous. Corolla ot 

 four very concave, green petals, twice the length of the 

 calyx. Filaments erect, four times as long as the corolla, 

 numerous, yellow-green. Anthers yellow. 



Fig. 1. Germen and Calyx. 2. Petal. 3. 4. Upper and under side of 

 portions of the Leaf : — magnified. 



