difcharging the pollen from the lower end. The germen is hairy, 
very {mall ; fy/e long and twifted in different direétions ; figma 
acute. Above the germen and below the infertion of the fila- 
ments, is a confiderable cavity filled with honey, and clofed 
above by atufluck of white hairs, growing from the bafe of 
each bundle of filaments. Moft of the flowers appeared to be 
males, few of them having. any obfervable fiyle.. The flowers 
are axillary, and for the moft part grow in pairs; but only one 
of them occupies the centre of the leaf, the other being as it 
were fupernumerary and placed on one fide. Leaves ovate, 
rigid, acute, recurved, underneath pale, about five-nerved, 
dotted with tranflucent glands. 
Native of the fouth-weft coaft of New-Holland, where it was 
difcovered by Rosrrt Brown, Efg. Flowers with us in 
March, April, and May. Requires the prote€tion of a green- 
houfe. Propagated by cuttings, ; 
The name was given in honour of the Duchefs of Beaurort, 
an early encourager of the fcience of Botany. Her grace pof- 
feffed a flourifhing botanic garden at her feat, at Badminton, in 
Gloucefterfhire, in the time of Sir Hans Stoanxr, Bart. to 
the richnefs of which in rare exotics, the herbarium of that 
celebrated naturalift, ftill preferved in the Britifh Mufeum, bears 
frequent teftimony. 
Communicated by Mr, James Dicxson, Nurferyman, in 
Acre-Lane, Clapham-Common, and late gardener to Rozert 
THornToN, Efq. : : 
The fir figure foows the anther in its perfect? flate ; the fecond the 
Jame, with the lobes feparating and falling off ; the third the germen 
and flyle ; the fourth the tufuck of hairs at the bafe of ihe claw of the 
bundle of filaments, 
