Gardens with many others, by Mr. Du Boulay, of Perth, in 

 South- Western Australia, and flowered in March of the 

 present year. The species has been collected by Preiss, 

 Drummond, and others, in the neighbourhood of Perth ; by 

 Harvey between Swan river and King George's Sound ; and 

 by Preiss in the neighbourhood of King George's Sound. 

 There is also in F. Mueller's herbarium a small specimen 

 gathered by Wiirth (a gardener) in the Murray desert of South 

 Australia, near Lake Alexandrina. 



Descr. A shrub described by collectors as attaining three to 

 five feet, with a spreading habit, the fine foliage of a pale green 

 and slightly silky-tomentose, when young resembling that of 

 southernwood. Leaves pinnate, with the lower pinnae usually 

 again pinnate, the segments linear-terete, almost filiform, 

 acute but neither rigid nor pungent, singly or doubly grooved 

 underneath, the whole leaf from one to two inches long. 

 Jtacemes terminal, sessile, spreading or recurved, one to one 

 and a half inches long, the rhachis tomentose, the flowers 

 numerous, secund, on pedicels of one to two lines. Perianth 

 glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs outside, bearded inside 

 with short hairs above the middle, the tube or claws of the 

 segments pink, about one-quarter inch long, attenuate above 

 the middle and revolute under the globular reflexed greenish 

 limb. Hypogynous gland broad, thick, but depressed, semi- 

 circular. Ovary glabrous on a long stipes ; style long, filiform, 

 thickened at the end with a small lateral stigma in the centre 

 of an orbicular disk. Follicle turgid, glabrous and smooth, 

 about one-half inch long. — Benth. 



Fig. 1, Portion of flowering, and 2, of fruiting raceme; 3, anthers :- 

 but 2 magnified. 



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