to its number, by which Mr. Brown has at length been 
enabled to extend it to twenty-three species. 
The present, a rare and handsome plant, and probably 
the most showy of the whole Genus, was one of the disco- 
veries of that indefatigable botanic-voyager, whilst on his 
last visit to King George’s Sound, in 1829; and the name 
he gave it, which Mr. Brown has adopted in the work 
above quoted, was in compliment to the respectable and 
laborious editor of the several well-known elaborate works 
on Botany and Gardening. The plant was raised from 
seeds, in 1830, both at Kew and in the nursery of Mr. 
Knieut, of the King’s Road; but it has hitherto only pro- 
duced its flower-heads in the former garden, whence a spe- 
cimen was obligingly communicated to us in the spring, 
which has now enabled us to publish a figure of one of the 
rarer of the South Australian Proreaces. 
Descr. An upright shrub, rising to the height of four 
or five feet: branches few, erect, clothed with a red-brown 
bark, the younger ones covered thinly with short cinereous 
hairs. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, remote, or occasionally 
fasciculated on very short branchlets ; lanceolate, lingu- 
late, or subspathulate, entire, obsoletely and faintly three- 
nerved, tapering towards the base, which is somewhat 
dilated; apex pointed, sphacelate; the younger leaves 
having a thin appressed cinereous pilosity on both pagine, 
which appears to wear off by age ; the adult ones, which are 
from four to five inches long, being quite smooth. Flower- 
head terminal, solitary. Involucre of numerous elliptical, 
imbricated bractes, which are densely covered with fer- 
ruginous hairs, having at its base a ray of three or four 
leaves. Flowers in each head numerous, spreading, of a 
rich purple. Perianth long, very slender, smooth, deeply 
divided into four linear lamine, which are about the length 
of the tube, their apices at the back being of a very dark 
purple, and tipped with a pencil of white silky hairs. An- 
thers four, white, bilocular, imbedded in the concave points 
of the lamin of the perianth, Style about the length of | 
the perianth, filiform and smooth below, widening upwards . 
into an angular, fusiform, bearded stigma. c 
