of pendulous bundles of stamens. In the case of B, sparsa 
there are about five bundles of stamens in each flower, and 
each bundle consists of a thread about an inch long bearing 
about eight long-stalked diverging filaments, of which two 
are opposite and placed considerably below five that 
terminate the thread; the filaments each bear a minute 
globose anther with a thick clavate connective and two 
lateral orbicular valves. In B. Dampieri the bundle of 
stamens is flattened, dilated above, and cleft into nine to 
fifteen filaments. This last is a most interesting plant, as 
being one of the first brought from Australia to Hurope, in 
the little Herbarium formed by the great and accomplished 
navigator Dampier, at Shark’s Bay, in 1699. In 
B., decussata again the bundle of filaments branches at the 
extremity into seven or more, and the anthers have 
conical or almost horn-shaped valves. 
B. striata was introduced into England upwards of half 
_ a century ago, and is much less frequently cultivated than 
it deserves to be. It has long been a resident of the 
Temperate House at Kew. The plant from which the 
drawing is made is a compact shrub four feet high which 
flowered in September, 1891.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, bract ; 3, flower; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, pistils :—all enlarged. 
