possesses the added interest of having been unknown 
in European gardens even during the period when 
growers, were less unwilling than they are to-day to take 
the trouble called for in the cultivation of hard-wooded 
Australian shrubs. The material for our plate has been 
obtained from a plant raised from seed received from 
Australia in 1906 as that of Eucalyptus eugenioides, which 
flowered at Kew in October, 1915. This name being. 
obviously erroneous, the drawing then prepared was 
submitted to Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Sydney 
Botanic Garden, to whom we are indebted for its identi- 
fication. A small virgate shrub, with rather narrow 
Spreading opposite leaves and large lilac purple flowers 
borne in axillary pairs, If, Radula flowers freely under 
greenhouse treatment in late autumn and is a welcome 
addition to conservatory collections. It is a native of 
Western Australia, where it was first collected in the 
Swan River district by Mr. James Drummond, and was 
first described from his specimens by Professor Lindley. 
Its natural range appears to be rather limited, though it 
18 not uncommon within its special area, for it has since 
then been collected by Preiss near the Cunning River, 
by Oldfield at Champion Bay and on the Murchison 
River, and by more recent travellers in neighbouring 
districts. Its nearest ally in the genus is M. linearifolia, 
Smith, another species from Western Australia, from 
which J. ftadula is readily distinguished by the involute 
leaf-margins, and by the larger flowers which are never, 
asin M. linearifolia, arranged in a terminal panicle. 
Description.—Shrub of considerable size; 
glabrous. Leaves opposite, linear, acute, canaliculate, finely scabrid, margins 
involute or concave, il} in. long, 1-nerved, pellucid-dotted. Flowers axillary, 
sessile, 3-1} in. across, lilac-purple. Calyx glabrous, 1-1 in. wide; lobes when 
present rather broad, but often nearly absent. Petals clawed, orbicular, 3-2 
<t ‘odaple Stamens very many, over } in. long, united below in 5 broad 
phalanges ; anthers globose, yellow. Ovary finely scabrid ; style thick ; stigma 
subcapitate. Fruit nearly globose, }-2 in. across, 
branches virgate; all parts 
Tas. 8866.—Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower-bud ; 8. sect; ver ; f 
stamens; 5 and 6, anthers :—ail be arg ee 
