the point: the surface under a microscope is minutely 
dotted, and there are besides several (comparatively) large 
and oblong, pellucid dots, when dry striated :—not unfre- 
quently, by a twist at the base of the leaves, they become 
vertical. Flowers collected into a spike, of a broadly oval, 
or subglobose outline, at the extremity of the branches, 
only terminated by two or three annotinous shoots. Base 
of the calyx where it is accrete with the germen and stem, 
very downy : limb of five broadly-ovate, rather small, erect, 
reen teeth. Petals five, obovate, concave, erect, white. 
stamens all nearly equal in height, combined into five 
halanges, each of about thirteen filaments, whose com- 
ined portions or claws are much longer than the corolla, 
and occupying about half the length of the filaments them-_ 
selves: all of a delicate rose colour. Style about as long | 
as the stamens. 
From the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, — 
where it was received from the late Mr. Fraser, Colonial 
Botanist at Sidney, New South Wales, under the name of 
Metatevca genistifolia: but the plant so called by Smita 
(Ex. Fl. t. 55,) is very different, having much broader 
leaves, and the stamens of a totally different character ; 
nor does our plant accord with any described species, 
whence I have been led to name it in compliment to the — 
person to whom we are indebted for its possession. - 
ee 
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Petal. 4. One of the five bundles of Sta- 
mens. 5. Anther and summit of a Filament: magnified 
