estimate, except those who haye had the opportunity of 
seeing the collections recently brought to this country for 
the Herbarium, especially by Mr. Antan Cunninenam, Mr. 
Fraser, and Dr. Srezer. To the first of these gentlemen 
we are indebted for our knowledge of the present species ; 
who found it on the margins of rivulets in the neighbour- 
hood of Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land, where it was 
observed in flower and fruit in the month of February. 
From the seeds which were collected at that period, plants 
were raised in the King’s Gardens at Kew; whence it ori- 
ginally emanated to other collections around London, and 
we also were favoured by W. T. Arron, Esq. with a flow- 
ering specimen in the month of May, 1833. 
It forms a twiggy shrub in the greenhouse with angular, 
' brown, and slightly viscid branches. Leaves, or rather 
leaf-stalks (phyllodia) alternate, two to four inches long, 
narrow-lanceolate, rigid, slightly glutinous, two-nerved, 
with a somewhat thickened margin, acute and tipped with 
a curved mucro, at the base having an imperfect gland. 
Flowers collected into dense heads, the size of a large pea, 
which are sessile, or very nearly so, and standing in pairs 
from the axils of the leaves. Calyx cup-shaped, five-cleft. 
Corolla monopetalous, five-cleft. Stamens very numerous. 
As a species, it may _pashape rank next to A. dodonee- 
folia, from which it differs in the more sharply-pointed, 
two-nerved foliage, and nearly sessile heads of flowers. 
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Fig. 1. Portion of a Leaf, 2. Flower: magnified. 
