marked with scars) with the sheathing bases of the foliage. 
The leaves themselves are two to four inches long, linear- 
subulate, rather harsh, scattered, reflexed, grooved above, 
of a glaucous-green, striated, quite entire. The branches 
are terminated with a long and compound, more or less. 
dense raceme. Flowers secund, moderately large, Calyx 
of five deep, lanceolate, acuminate, appressed, reddish seg- 
ments, almost of five leaves. Corolla in our specimen almost 
cylindrical, a little ventricose, slightly contracted above the 
middle, and there having a dusky band: the rest of the 
corolla is pure white: the mouth is slightly contracted : the 
limb of five short, spreading teeth or segments. Stamens 
hypogynous, much shorter than the tube : anthers oblong, 
red-orange. Hypogynous glands five, alternating with the 
filaments, nearly square, dark green. Ovary roundish. 
Style rather shorter than the stamens. Stigma simple. 
This is a rare and highly interesting suffruticose plant of 
the Natural Order Epacrivex, communicated by Mr. Arron, 
from the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it was first raised in 
this country from seeds transmitted by Mr. Attan Cunnin@= 
HAM in 1823, and gathered near Port Jackson. The spe-~ 
cimen was accompanied by the following observations from 
Mr. Cunnincuam himself. “ It is found in shaded ravines, 
and such humid situations as Ferns delight in. In its native 
country, its habit is different from that which it not unfre- 
quently assumes in cultivation: for, growing there, as it 
always does, on wet sand-stone rocks, almost wholly de- 
nuded of soil, its raceme is much fewer flowered, and the — 
plant itself altogether of slenderer growth. Some speci- 
mens at Kew exhibit an unnatural luxuriance, the raceme — 
of flowers being much crowded together, and some of these 
being monstrous, (the effect probably of luxuriant growth,) 
formed by the union of three or four corollas, and thus 
presenting a very broad and somewhat flattened tube, with — 
many teeth and an indefinite number of stamens: an ap- 
pearance which | never witnessed in native specimens. 
The plant is a very desirable one for cultivation, as it 
flowers freely with the protection of a greenhouse, and 
there ripens seeds, by means of which it may readily be 
icreased.”” A. Cunningham. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Hypogynous Scales, Stamens, and Pistil : magnified. 
