To me it appears that P. Drummondii is far more dis- 

 tinct from any form known to me of australis, than any 

 form of the latter is from grossularioides ; and that if 

 Drummondii is to be merged in australis, so should both be 

 in grossularioides. 



To return to the subject of the plate, it differs from 

 australis chiefly in the greater size of all its parts ; but this 

 difference is excessive, the largest flowers that I have 

 seen of P. australis not exceeding half an inch in diameter, 

 the fruiting sepals 1 inch, and the capsules J-J, whereas the 

 dimensions of the same organs in P. Drummondii are 

 respectively one to one and a quarter, one half, and one 

 and a half inch. Another character assigned to australis 

 is that its leaves are inodorous, whereas those of Drum- 

 mondii are fragrant ; before, however, any stress can be 

 laid on this point, the fragrance, or the contrary, of all 

 forms of australis must be ascertained. 



P. Drummondii was raised from seeds sent to the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, by Miss Bunbury, of Bunbury, West 

 Australia, a lady who exhibited a beautiful series of 

 paintings of the plants of that country at the late Colonial 

 and Indian Exhibition, and who has contributed valuable 

 collections of seeds to Kew. The seeds were sown in 

 March, 1892, and plants raised flowered in May of the 

 following year. 



Descr. — An undershrub 2 ft. or more high, clothed with 

 a soft, more or less glandular fragrant pubescence; 

 branches robust, terete. Leaves long-petioled, three to 

 five inches in diameter, orbicular-cordate, 5-lobed, crenate- 

 toothed, upper surface pale green, bullate between the 

 deeply sunk nerves ; petiole three to five inches long; 

 stipules very large, reflexed, oblong or orbicular. Pedun- 

 cles three to six inches long, stout; many-fld. ; bracts and 

 pedicels very short ; flowers crowded, one half to one inch 

 in diameter. Calyx-tube obconic, lobes ovate-oblong ob- 

 tuse or subacute, enlarging in fruit. Petals obovate, 

 spathulate, rosy red, two posterior conniving and marked 

 below the middle with dendritic red streaks. Perfect 

 stamens about eight, exserted. Capsule one to one and a 

 half inch long, softly hairy.—/. D. H. 



AMml'r 2 *} 1 * ^ 0Vary; 2 ' stame aa and pistil; 3, base of young ovary :— 



