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Boronia Fraseri. Mr. Fraser's 

 Boron i a. 



Class and Order. 



OCTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Rutace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 4-fidns persistens. Petala 4 ovata persistentia. 

 Stamina 8, rarius 4 sepalis opposita antherifera, 4 altera 

 aborti va, filamentis ciliatis incurvis. Styli 4 erecti approx- 

 lmati aut inter se coaliti. Carpella 4 bivalvia introrsum 

 connata in capsulam 4-Iobam 4-Iocularia. Semina in loculo 

 snbsolitaria ovata compressa. Embryo rectus in albumine 

 carnoso, radicula infera (ex Gjertn.) — Frutices Nova Hol- 

 landia. Folia opposita. Pedunculi axillares. Flores sa- 

 pius purpurascentes. D C. 



Specific Name and Character. 



Boronia Fraseri; ramis augulatis glabris, foliis pinnatis 

 foliolis quinis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis, pedunculis 

 umbellatis tri- pluri-floris calycibus petalisque incauis, 

 staminibus 8 alternis majoribus, filamentis omnibus 

 superne incrassatis tuberculatis, tuberculis setosis, an- 

 theris mucronatis. 



Boronia anemonifolia. Paxt. Mag. o/Bot. t. 9. p. 123. 



This is the handsomest of a very handsome Genus, and 

 appears to have been introduced to our gardens from New 

 Holland, having been recently figured in Mr. Paxton's 

 " Magazine of Botany," under the name of B. anemonifolia, 

 and it is presumed intended for the plant of that name 

 published by Allan Cunningham ; although, as is the 

 custom with that Work, which, it must be acknowledged, 



takes 



