plant (as indeed might be expected from its very thick and fleshy 

 leaves), and it is from seeds sent by him in 1S5G that onr pre- 

 sent plants were raised, and which flowered in August of 1863. 

 It is, however, not now for the first time cultivated at Kew, for 

 we have had for very many years in our Herbarium a specimen 

 derived from these Gardens ; no doubt introduced by the inde- 

 fatigable Allan Cunningham. Our Herbarium also contains a 

 specimen from a small island in Sharks' Bay, West Australia, 

 from G. Sandford, Esq. 



Descr. A much branching and very woody shrub, with copi- 

 ous oblanceolate or spathulate, rather than cuneiform leaves, 

 thick and fleshy, readily breaking off in the dry state. Flowers 

 large, axillary, solitary ; the peduncles clavate ; the calyx leafy, 

 dowmy ; the petals broadly obovate, pure white, with a deep 

 blood-coloured spot at the base. Anthers also blood-coloured, 

 beautifully arranged in whorls, as in the Hibiscus Huegelii (given 

 in our last number, Tab. 5406) ; and the style and stigmas, erect 

 and connivent, are the same as in //. Huegelii, from which this 

 seems hardly generically distinct. 



Pig. 1. Summit of the peduncle, with involucre, stamens, and style. 2. Pistil : 

 -magnified. 



