embellish the pages of this Magazine. In the garden at 
Belgrove it flowers in the month of February. The plants, 
which are now included in the genus Hypocalymma, were 
at first considered to belong to the genus Leptospermum, 
though they were treated by Endlicher as constituting a 
distinct section of the latter genus. To this section Lindley 
and Schauer simultaneously and independently accorded 
the rank of a distinct genus, and their decision has never 
been questioned since, though, owing to a typographical 
error which has found currency, the name in English 
garden lists has of late years usually been given as 
Hypocalymna. 
Drscription.—Undershrub, 3-4 ft. high; twigs strict, 
virgate, glabrous; bark reddish-brown. Leaves spreading, 
sessile, thick, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 4-3 in. long, 
more or less triangular in section, sparingly glandular. 
flowers axillary, usually in pairs, sessile; sometimes 3—4- 
nate and then borne on a very short rather stout peduncle; 
bracts and bracteoles scarious, about 1 lin. long, nearly as 
wide, concave. Receptacle obconic patelliform, about 2 lin. 
wide. Sepals rounded oblong, scarious, about 1 lin. long 
and broad. Petals pink, elliptic obovate, nearly 2 lin. long, 
1) lin. wide. Stamens 30-40, about as long as the petals ; 
filaments shortly connate below. Style 2 lin, long ; ovary 
flattened at the top, 2-celled, 6-ovuled. 
Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower-buds; 3, flower in longitudinal section; 4 and 5, 
stamens; 6, ovary in transverse section :—all enlarged. 
