fection to which it attains in its native country; and we are in- 
debted to them for the specimen here figured. 
Descr. A twiggy shrub, very much branched, with opposite 
branches ; three to four feet high, corymbose at the top, so thick 
as to form, in its native country, a spreading mass of golden- 
yellow flowers, some feet in diameter: these flowers retain their 
colour and brilliancy when dry. Zeaves opposite or quaternate, 
linear-filiform, obtuse, about an inch long. Pedice/s slender, in- 
crassated a little upwards, above which, at the setting-on of the 
calyx-tube, is a scar, whence two; cucullate, dotted bracts have 
fallen. Calyx, with the tude turbinate: the Jims of five lobes, 
digitately divided into five or six or more, linear, long-ciliated 
segmenis. Petals five, broad, ciliate, dotted. | Stamens twenty ; 
ten sterile, short, and thread-like ; ten perfect, and twice as long. 
Anther very peculiar, two-celled, large, ovate, rostrate; at the 
base are two globose cells; these have a larger, cucullate, fleshy 
connectivum, which looks like a calyptra. Ovary one-celled, 
with two ovules : style from the centre of a depressed dish : stigma 
a mere point. 
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Fig. 1. Leaf, with a small portion of a branch. 2. Bud, with its deciduous 
bracteas. 3. Bud, from which the bracts have fallen. 4. Fully expanded flower. 
5. Calyx-lobe. 6. Petal. 7. Ovary, cut through vertically, with the style and 
portion of the stamens. 8. Perfect anther :—all more or less magnified, 
