above quoted, under a u Monograph of the Cunoniaceae," 

 Mr. Don has given to this plant the generic name of Caly- 

 comis of Brown, and correctly described its generic distinc- 

 tions. Calycomis is a name, mentioned by Mr. Brown in 

 his Botany of Capt. Flinders' voyage as one of five Aus- 

 tralian Genera of the Natural Order Cunoniaceae : but to 

 us it appears that, by that term, the Genus Callicoma 

 (Andrews), a plant of the same Natural Order, and from the 

 same country, is intended. And this idea is strengthened by 

 the fact that, Dr. Sims, in Bot. Magazine, t. 1811, quotes, 

 under the Callicoma serratifolia, the Genus Calycomis of 

 c Brown in Flinders' Voyage, App. p. 540." If this be 

 correct, there can exist no doubt of the propriety of adopt- 

 ing Mr. Bentham's more recently described Genus, Acro- 

 phyllum ; and even should Mr. Brown's Calycomis be in- 

 tended as distinct from Callicoma, the name is assuredly 

 too near akin to the latter word to render it desirable that 

 it should be adopted, especially when the two are in the 

 same Order. The plant is peculiarly handsome; it was 

 introduced into our gardens by Mr. Allan Cunningham, 

 and with the common treatment of the greenhouse, it 

 flowers in great profusion during the spring months. 



Descr. A shrub, about two feet high, with opposite 

 branches, and leaves, which are ternate-verticillate, nearly 

 sessile oblong-ovate, coriaceous, acuminate, very coarsely 

 serrated and strongly penninerved, the young ones of a rich 

 red-purple colour. Flowers small, in numerous, bracteated, 

 dense whorls below the terminal leaves. Pedicels short, 

 hairy, red. Calyx of five, hairy, spreading, ovate, pale red 

 sepals Petals longer than the calyx, spathulate, spread- 

 ing, btamens ten, hypogynous. Filaments longer than 

 the petals (at first incurved). Anthers subglobose, two- 

 celled, cells opening longitudinally. Germen sub-lobose, 

 hairy. Styles two, subulate. Capsule two-lobed! termi- 

 nated with i two spreading, persistent styles, hairy, two- 

 celled each cell few-seeded. Seeds ovato-globose/attach- 

 ed to the dissepiments on each side. 



J>% T^Im 2 " FIo J e J' ^ expanded. 3. Pistil. 4. Fruit: not. 

 7 Cans,, J 1 t th G ' m lT fied ' Sl \ 0Wing the P ersis tent Filaments. 6. Fruit. 

 7. Capsule cut through transversely. 8. Seed. All but fig. 4 magnified. 



