Andrew Henry, Esq., for a living specimen of this remarkable 

 plant, which flowered in antumn of last year ; it was raised 

 from seed sent from Western Australia, where the species 

 inhabits the country from King George's Sound to Swan 



Eiver. . , 



Descr. A tall, smooth, glabrous shrub, several leet high, 

 with very slender cylindric polished brown branches, marked 

 with annular scars. Leaves towards the ends of the branches 

 in whorls of five to eight, one and a half to five inches 

 long, sessile, spreading and decurved, lanceolate, of 

 variable breadth, acute or acuminate, usually very finely ; 

 pale green above, with numerous very slender parallel nerves, 

 connected by very slender longitudinal nervules ; glaucous 

 beneath. Spikes axillary, slender, very variable in length, 

 usually shortly peduncled, very many-flowered ; peduncle 

 clothed with minute ovate concave bracts ; rachis slender. 

 Floivcrs very minute, about one-tenth of an inch long, pale 

 rose-coloured ; bracteoles ovate, obtuse, shorter than the calyx. 

 Sepals ovate- oblong, acute, ciliolate, not half the length of 

 the glabrous corolla tube. Corolla lobes narrowly ovate, 

 bearded below the middle within. Anthers long, linear, 

 attached by the back at the middle to a short stout filament. 

 Disk 5-crenate. Ovary usually 5 -celled ; style short.— J. DM. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; I, ovary and disk; 3, transverse section of ovary ; 1, stamen 

 — ail enlarged. 



