at Kew, where it flourishes and flowers best in a cool frame. 

 The specific name was given by M. Labillardiere in con- 

 sequence of the rose-coloured dye produced by the mealy 

 dust, which clothes the seeds, when infused in water. It 

 flowers during the summer months with us. 



Descr. This shrub is said to attain a height of five to 

 six feet in its native country : with us, two to three feet 

 seem to be its utmost limit, decumbent below, then erect, 

 glabrous, as is the plant everywhere. Leaves petiolated, 

 extremely variable in shape upon the same or upon differ- 

 ent plants; pinnatifid, or bipinnatifid (rarely undivided) the 

 segments linear, rather obtuse, but mucronate, all of them, 

 as well as the rachis and petiole, channelled above. The 

 upper part of the stem runs out into a long raceme of sul- 

 phur-coloured Jlowers, tipped with green, especially in the 

 bud. Pedicels solitary, or subfasciculate, scarcely an inch 

 long. Perianth of four spreading, linear-spathulate, revo- 

 lute sepals: the broad apices hollowed out, and containing 

 each a sessile anther. Ovary stipitate, with three; glands at 

 the base in front. Style shorter than the stipes, bent down 

 at an angle, and dilated at the apex into the oblique 



stigma. 



Fig. 1. Flower : — magnified. 



