to be not uncommon. We have numerous specimens from 
the vicinity of Port Jackson and from King George’s Sound. 
The Glasgow Botanic Garden owes the possession of it to 
Mr. Loppiees, and it flowers with us in the month of June. 
It may be reckoned a hardy green-house plant. 
Descr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, shrubby, 
slightly branched, clothed with a brown bark, which in 
our plant is but slightly hairy. Leaves alternate, cordate, 
sometimes approaching to ovate, sometimes to rotundate, 
coriaceous, glabrous, or partially clothed with deciduous 
down, acute, deeply and sharply toothed at the margin: 
petiole one-fourth the length of the leaf, scarcely dilated at 
the base. Peduncles terminal, elongated, sometimes with 
a coloured bractea. Umbels of four rather short rays. 
Involucre of four linear-lanceolate reddish-green leaves. 
Involucels, one at the base of each partial and nearly sessile 
and few-flowered umbel, large, petaloid, pure white, or 
externally only slightly tinged with red, concave, deeply 
three-cleft, with acute, spreading segments. Flowers few, 
six to eight in each involucre, white, the anthers and the 
upper margin of the germen only being red. Calyx of 
five large, deciduous sepals, jointed as it were on the top 
of the germen, erect. Petals erect, oval, unguiculate, 
with a large involute appendage. Filaments incurved at 
the apex: Anthers oval. Young fruit roundish, remark- 
ably flattened on the sides, many-ribbed. Stylopodium of 
two large, rounded, fleshy lobes. Some of the flowers are 
imperfect. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Back view, and 3, front view of a Petal. 4 Sta- 
men, 95. Immature Fruit —magnificd, 
