Tas. 8301. 
AGONIS MARGINATA. 
Western Australia. 
Myrraceat. Tribe LerrospERMEAE. 
Aaonis, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 703. 
Agonis marginata, Schaw. in Pl. Preiss, vol. i. p. 117; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vol. iii. p. 98; affinis A, obtusissimae, F. Muell., sed foliis et floribus 
mivoribus staminibusque paucioribus differt. 
Frutex 2-3 m. altus, ramis et ramulis molliter pubescentibus. /olia obovato- 
oblonga, obtusa vel minute mucronulata, basi in petiolum brevem angus- 
tata, 1-3 em. longa, 0°5-1 em. lata, coriacea, e basi quinquenervia, margine 
pilis densis appressis pubescentia. ores sessiles, fasciculati, fasciculis 
axillaribus subglobosis 10-20-floris. Bracteolae exteriores late orbiculares, 
4 mm. diametro, dense ciliatae; interiores obovatae, concavae, 3mm. longae, 
dorso carinatae, albo-villosae. Calycis tubus 2mm. longus, extra parce 
- pubescens, lobis rotundatis molliter ciliatis et sericeo-pubescentibus intus 
rubro-purpureis. | Petalorum limbus  suborbicularis, circiter 3 mm. 
diametro, glaber, albus, ungue brevi rubro-purpureo. Stamina 10, petalis 
et calycis lobis opposita. Stylus glaber, stigmate capitato. Ovula 3-4. 
Fructus conglomerati, apice loculicide dehiscentes.—Leptospermum mar- 
ginatum, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. vol. ii. p. 10, t. 148. Billiottia marginata, 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. vol. ii. p. 827. Fuabricia stricta, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t. 1219.—J. HUTCHINSON. 
For the material on which the figure of this beautiful 
shrub given at plate 8301 has been based, Kew is indebted 
to Mr. T. A. Dorrien Smith, in whose garden at Tresco 
Abbey, Isles of Scilly, it grows luxuriantly in the open, 
though in most parts of the British Islands it is not hardy. 
The genus Agonis to which the plant belongs ineludes fifteen 
species, all of which are limited to Western Australia. In 
the Flora Australiensis the late Mr. Bentham has divided 
the genus, which as a whole was formerly deemed, owing to 
its jalternate leaves and to the relative lengths of the 
stamens and petals, a section of Leptospermum, into two 
sections. The first of these, the Taxandria, were charac- 
terised by having ten stamens, regularly opposite to the 
calyx-lobes and petals and by having two ovules in each 
cell. The second section, the Ataxandria, were characterised 
Feprvary, 1910. 
