oblong-oval, concave, yellow or brownish green, redder 
towards the apex, and obscurely ciliated at the margin: 
Filaments pale rose, almost white at the base ; the very apex 
deep rose-colour. Anthers very small, bifid. Pzsézl, appa- 
rently none in the specimen sent. Fruit is represented from a 
dried native specimen, gathered by Mr. Cunnineuam, at fig. 6. 
* A rare plant, and one of the few shrubs that are to be 
found upon the barren, loose, sandy downs of Dirk Har- 
tog’s Island, off Shark’s Bay, on the West coast of Aus- 
tralia, where its seeds were gathered in 1822, during the 
surveying voyage of Capt. P. P. Kine, in H. M. Sloop 
Bathurst, and from which the living plants which have 
repeatedly flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew were 
raised. ‘That it is the same plant which the celebrated 
navigator Dampier gathered in 1699 on the sterile shores of 
the neighbouring main, namely, at Shark’s Bay, whilst pro- 
secuting his voyage in H. M. S. Roebuck appears very 
evident, on a comparison with the figure given in the work 
above quoted, as well as from the description of the species 
by Dr. Woopwarp: the differences being only such as 
arise from cultivation. Speaking of Damara, a generic 
name which it seems was applied by Rumputvus, not only to 
Pinus Damara, L. (Damara australis, Lams.) but to Mera- 
LEucA Leucodendron, L. and another species figured in the 
Herbarium Amboynense, Dr. Woopwarp says, ‘ This new 
Genus was sent from Amboyna by Rumpuivs, by the name 
of Damara, of which he transmitted two kinds, one with 
narrow and long stiff leaves, the other with shorter and 
broader. The present plant, he continues, is of the same 
_ Genus with them, agreeing both in flower and fruit, though 
very much differing in leaves. The flowers are stamineous, 
_and seem to be of an herbaceous colour, growing among the 
leaves, which are short and almost round, very stiff, an¢ 
_ ribbed on the underside, of a dark green above, and a paler 
colour underneath, thick, set on by pairs, answering one 
another crossways, so that they cover the stalk. Its fruit 1s 
as big as a peppercorn, almost round, of a whitish colour, 
dry and tough, with a hole on the top, containing small seeds. 
_ Every one that sees this plant without its seed-vessels would 
take it for an Erica or Sanamunpa*’, (Passerina, L.) The 
leaves of this plant are of a very aromatic taste.’ Allan 
Cunningham. 
__. For the above account of this interesting plant, I am indebted to Mr. 
Attan Cunnincuam, and to Mr. Arron for the opportunity of figuring 1t. 
vases — on account of the purgative qualities by the 
Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Petal. 3. Cluster of Fi Under-side 
ee ge eee ilaments. 4. Upper, and 5, Un 
of a Leaf: magnified, 6. Portion of a dried native specimen in Fruit : nat, size. 
