introduced into his valued Supplement, which appeared in 

 1830. It was detected in 1829, in the hilly region near 

 King George's Sound, on the South-western shores of New 

 Holland. Plants were raised from seeds soon after that 

 period, and they form small, but handsome, bushy green- 

 house plants ; bearing numerous flowers in the month of 

 May in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where our draw- 

 ing was made in 1842. 



Descr. Stems short, but much branched and straggling, 

 glabrous, densely clothed with harsh, rigid, but graceful 

 foliage. Leaves a span long, petioled, linear, deeply pin- 

 natifid, almost to the rachis, more or less hairy; segments 

 very narrow, linear, acute, almost subulate, curved down- 

 wards, decurrent, dark green and shining above, white with 

 dense down beneath : the rachis pale brown :— the lower 

 segments are so far apart that the base of the leaf may be 

 called pinnate, the rachis winged with the decurrent pin- 

 nules. Flowers terminal, on exceedingly short branches, 

 collected into an obconical head, shorter than the surround- 

 ing foliage. Perianth with its tube glabrous, the four 

 narrow, linear segments spathulate at their extremities and 

 hairy. Style much longer than the perianth, glabrous. 

 Stigma clavate. 



Fig. 1. Single Flower : — magnified. 



