obtufe, inner minute (eafily overlooked) fubulate, ereé, one 
or two of which are fometimes entirely obliterated ; the flower 
altogether reminds us of that of TRapescantia virginica (vid. 
fupra No. 105) ; Félaments connate into an upright, cuniculate, - 
rather tapering cylinder, far fhorter than the outer fegments ; 
Anthers beneath the ftigmas, fhort, ovate, feffile, diverging, 
yellow ; Svyle capillary, the length of the filamentofe cylinder, 
clavately tumefcent towards the fummit, and at the jun@tion with 
the ftigmas having a remarkable joint-like conftri€tion, where 
thefe, which are at firft ereét, prefently incline, at laft be- 
coming refraétedly pendulous; S/igmas three, triquetrally con- 
crete downwards, feparating upwards into divergently upright 
cucullately convolute laminae, glandularly roughened inwards, 
with a broad, patent, rounded, fuberofely ciliate border ; 
Germen flender-oblong, trigonal, fubfeffile, woolly pubefcent, 
enclofed. 
Our fpecimen was furnifhed us by Meflrs, Lez and Ken- 
NeDy, of Hammerfmith, who received the feeds, from which 
they raifed it, from Port Jackfon ; we believe it to be the firft 
{pecies of this order from that country that has bloomed in any 
European garden. Requires the fhelter of a greenhoufe, and 
appears to be of eafy culture. Without fcent. 
For the above generic and fpecific charaéters we are entirely 
indebted to the liberal communication of Mr. Brown; they 
are famples that have increafed, if poffible, the eagernefs with 
which we have long looked for the publication of the work, 
from the manufcript of which they have been extraéted. The 
Herbarium of this gentleman contains four other fpecies col- 
le&ed by him, while accompanying Captain Fiinpers in his 
voyage of difcovery. He has not confidered any of them as ne- 
ceffarily congeners of LasiLLarprere’s Genosiris fragilis ; 
but has united them in a feparate divifion, under an appellation — 
by which he commemorates his friend, Colonel Paterson, the 
lieutenant-governor of New South-Wales, a gentleman whole 
name has been long familiar to the naturalift. 
This genus has the clofeft affinity with Anistra, WITSENIA, 
Tareinta, and Diptarrena, between the two firft of which 
we fhould place it. Notwithftanding fome apparently material 
difcrepancies, upon the face of LastLiarpiere’s defcription 
and figure, between Patersonta and Genostris (which 
difcrepancies, by the bye, we think are in fome meafure in- 
creafed by the defeétivenefs of that defcription and figure (we 
have no doubt but that the latter muft one day merge in the 
one we are now treating of, G, 
