of delicacy of odour accompanying a singular brown-purple 
colour, it resembles the Vinnea Aithiopica of Tropical Africa 
(Tab. nost. 5637); and like the Tinnea, the Boronia is very 
easy of cultivation, if treated like a Heath in an ordinary 
greenhouse. 
Descr. A very slender shrub, two feet high, with twiggy 
erect branches, and spreading opposite branchlets. Leaves 
very sparse, one-third to two-thirds of an inch long, sessile, 
the upper with one pair of pinnules besides the terminal, the 
lower with two pairs ; pinnules narrow-linear, obtuse, glabrous, 
or with a few scattered hairs. Flowers very copiously pro- 
duced, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves of the branch- 
lets, subglobose-campanulate, one-half inch in diameter, 
shortly peduncled, drooping ; peduncle one-half inch long, 
with two connate bracteoles above the middle. Sepals very 
small, subacute, gibbous at the back towards the apex. 
Petals nearly orbicular, concave, broadly imbricate, maroon- 
purple outside, greenish-yellow within. Stamens eight, very 
small, four sepaline with purple empty anthers on a level 
with the stigma, four petaline very minute, with four polleni- 
ferous yellow anthers concealed ‘under the stigma. Stigma 
very large, sessile, umbonate, 4-lobed.—J. D. H. 
SPENORCar omnis cece ean aE Hee 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower; 3, the same with the petals removed; 4, trans- 
verse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
