Tas. 5286, 
VERTICORDIA nirens. 
Glistening Verticordia. 
Nat. Ord. Myrrace#z: Trib. 1; Coam#iaucie#, De Cand. 
PoLyaNDRIA [COSANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flos ante evolutionem Jracteis 2 liberis concretisve involucriformi- 
bus cinctus. Calycis Jobi in lobulos 5-7 palmatipartiti. Petala 5. Stamina 20, 
quorum 10 sterilia liguleeformia, 10 alterna fertilia, inter se zqualia. Stylus fili- 
formis, exsertus. Stigma barbato-plumosum. Ovarium uniloculare, ovula 5-6 
centro adfixa erecta includens. Fructus l-spermus. Semen globosum.—Frutices 
Australasici, Pileanthi facie. Folia opposita, lineari-subtriquetra. Flores Jon- 
giuscule pedicellati, ex azillis supremis orti, in corymbos terminales dispositi. 
De Cand. 
VERTICORDIA mitens ; edifaibo composito multifloro condensato, tubo calycis 
turbinato glabro, lobis palmato-9-fidis, lobulis_pinnato-plumulosis, petalis 
subcartilagineis ovatis margine superiori inciso-fimbriatis, staminodiis line- 
ari-subulatis integerrimis, connectivo in galeam cristatam anthere imminen- 
tem extenso, stylo incluso imberbi, bracteolis muticis eaducis, foliis filiformi- 
teretibus oblique mucronatis patulis. Schau. 
VERTICORDIA nitens. Schauer, Monograph. Myrtac. Xerocarpic. p. 71.448. 
J. 1-5. 
CHRYSORRHOE nitens. Lindl. in Bot. Mag. Comp. v. 2. p. 357; and in App. to 
the Bot. Reg. t. 1. 
twenty years since a figure of this plant, 
made from a dried specimen sent from Western Australia by Cap- 
tain James Mangles, appeared in Dr. Lindley’s s ‘Sketch of the 
hee of the Swan River Botany,’ and was there described 
“the magnificent Chrysorrhoé nitens, whose yellow flowers, of 
metallic lustre, form masses of golden stars some feet in dia- 
meter.” Ever since, it has been the desire of nurserymen and 
others engaged in horticulture, to import this lovely plant; but, 
though seeds have been repeatedly sent, and to our garden 
amongst others, either they have not germinated, or died off 
before the flowering-time. At length the Messrs. Veitch, of the 
Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, have succeeded in rearing and 
flowering this plant, in August, 1861, not, indeed, in the per- 
DECEMBER Ist, 1861. 
