takes away much from its usefulness, no synonym, or refer- 

 ence, is given. The plant, however, is wholly at variance 

 with the B. anemonifolia of A. Cunningham : nor does it 

 appear to be a species taken up by any other author ; but 

 is unquestionably one, of which I find fine specimens in my 

 Herbarium, from the late Mr. Charles Fraser, which that 

 indefatigable Botanist collected, and noted as " Boronia, 

 a native of ravines on the banks of the Nepean River. Its 

 height three feet. Observed in flower in September. 

 Rare." — With us it grows freely in a common greenhouse, 

 and is readily increased by cuttings ; and its deep rose- 

 coloured flowers are produced in the spring months. 



Descr. A shrub, with numerous, opposite, angular, 

 glabrous branches. Leaves opposite, pinnated ; pinnce five, 

 rarely three, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, jointed upon the 

 rachis, which is itself channelled, and jointed at the setting 

 on of the leaflets, not winged. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 or two together, bearing an umbel of three to six or eight 

 flowers, in some cases shorter than the leaves, hoary as well 

 as the pedicels. Calyx small, of four deep, spreading, 

 hoary, ovate segments. Corolla of four, ovate, spreading 

 petals, of a deep rose-red colour, downy on both sides, but 

 beneath more so, and hoary. Stamens eight, inserted upon 

 the large eight-lobed, fleshy disk of the germen ; all ot 

 them short, and each alternate one still shorter. Fila- 

 ments thick, fleshy, white, club-shaped : in the upper or 

 thickened part studded with tubercles in four rows, (fewer 

 in the shorter filaments) and each of these tubercles has 

 three or four stellated hairs at the point. Germen nearly 

 hemispherical, obscurely five-angled, gradually tapering 

 into a rather short style. Stigma dilated. 



Fig. 1. Upper, and 2, under side of a Petal. 3. Calyx with Stamens and 

 Petals. 4. Shorter, and 5, larger Stamen. 6. Pistil and fleshy Disk :— 

 magnified. 



