produced in the greenhouse in the month of May, and have 

 a very pretty appearance among the rather gloomy foliage. 

 It is a native of Western Australia. Dampier appears to 

 have first discovered it in Hawkes' Bay, and it is said to be 

 the plant figured in his voyage, v. 4. t. 3. f. 3. (French ed.) 

 It was collected during the voyage of Captain Baudin, at 

 at Terre d'Endracht of the French voyagers, and both 

 seeds and specimens have been sent by Mr. James Drum- 

 mond from the Swan River Settlement, from the former of 

 which our plants were raised at the Royal Botanic Gardens 

 of Kew. Mr. Allan Cunningham named a plant Di- 

 ploljEna Dampieri, which he gathered at Dirk Har tog's 

 Island : but this proves to be the D. grandiflora of 

 Desfontaines ; the only other described species. A third 

 has, however, been found in the Swan River Colony, by 

 Mr. James Drummond, which may be called D. angustifolia* 

 Descr. A moderate-sized shrub, copiously branched. 

 The branches alternate, the younger ones clothed with 

 stellated down. Leaves alternate, oblong, but broader 

 upwards, entire, the younger ones rusty, the older ones 

 scabrous above, beneath clothed with dense, stellated down. 

 Peduncles solitary, lateral, deflexed. Head of flowers 

 large, drooping : florets numerous, surrounded by a large 

 double involucre. Calyx of several linear, short scales. 

 Stamens long, red. Filaments very hairy below. Anthers 

 yellow. Corolla none. Ovary on a large annular disk, of 

 five lobes, hairy at the summit. Style longer than the 

 stamens. Stigina of five small, erect, linear lobes. 



Fig. 1. Single Floret. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil : — magnified. 



* D. angustifolia (Hook.), foliis lineari-oblongis margmibus recurvis 

 supra glabris impresso-punctatis subtus incano-albis. DlPLOL^ENA, n. sp. 

 Urummond's first coll. n. 14. 



This has much larger flowers than D. Dampieri ; and the leaves are 

 very narrow, with revolute margins. 



