side, and in the younger leaves only, downy. Amentum 
terminal, large, cylindrical, of exceedingly numerous flow- 
ers, placed im pairs, each pair subtended by three closely- 
placed bractea, two inner and one outer one, clothed with 
long, silky, fulvous hairs, the middle one having a conical, 
naked point. Perianth or Calyx glabrous, greenish yellow, 
with the tabe slender, filiform, the upper half separating 
into four segments, spathulate and concave at the extremity, 
and, in the hollow, bearing, each, ‘a-solitary anther. Style 
scarcely longer than the perianth, filiform, yellow. Stigma 
simple. 
The seeds of this fine species of Banxsta were received 
from Mr. Fraser, and, according to Mr. Brown, it is an in- 
habitant of Lewin’s Land, near the shore, in the Southern 
oa of New Holland. Introduced into England by Mr. 
EnziEs, its discoverer, in 1794, 1 have no opportunity of 
comparing the plant with the figure quoted by Mr. Brown, 
im Anprews’s Repository, nor am I quite sure of its bemg 
the true B. marcescens. The leaves are not decidedly ¢u- 
neate, and they are reticulated with white, downy areol#. 
In some respects it approaches the B. oblongifolia, but that 
is described by Mr. Brown as having sericeous calyces. 
The B. marcescens flowers in the greenhouse in the month 
of April, and our drawing was ifintle from the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden. _ | j 
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