almost capitate spike. Flowers, in the bud, slightly tinged 
with pink, afterwards white, spreading, each sessile in the 
axil of a bractea, which is larger than those below. Per?- 
anth pubescent: tube curved outwards and obscurely tetra- 
gonous ; limb inflated, bilabiate: upper lip pointed, re- 
flected, the lower-lip of three straight, erect teeth of equal 
length, but the two outer are a little broader than that in 
the middle. Granam. If inastate of the bud the perianth 
be carefully cut open at the faux, where the stamens (three 
in number anther-bearing) are situated, they will be found, 
as Mr. Brown has long ago observed, to be most curiously 
joined, so that. the three anthers constitute but two cells: 
that is to say, the single lobe of each of the two anthers 
of the lower lip is conjoined with a lobe of the perfect 
anther in the upper lip. In flower, the stamens sepa- 
rate, and we find one perfect, two-lobed anther in the 
middle of the uppet lip, and two one-lobed anthers in the 
lower lip; the other lobe being abortive, and appearing 
like a subulate appendage : the fourth stamen, which should 
have occupied the middle of the lower lip, is entirely abor- 
tive, and appears like a bipartite scale, with a mucro in the 
sinus. The filaments are very short: the Anther-lobes 
oval, purple-brown : the pollen yellow. Pistil: Germen 
free, broadly oblong, narrow below, clothed with silky 
hairs, and crowned with a beautiful tuft of the same. Ovule 
pendent, obconical. Style zigzag, filiform. Stigma slightly 
toothed, clavate, concave. 
I have already, at t. 2724 of this work, observed, that 
some narrow-leaved varieties of C. taxifolium approach this 
species : still I believe it to be distinguished by the shape 
of this foliage. Seeds were received by Dr. Granam at the 
Edinburgh Garden, from Mr. Fraser of New Holland, and 
they flowered both in April 1827 and 1828. 
_ Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. Section of the Perianth and Anther, to 
shew the situation of the latter before the expansion of the flower. 3. 
Perianth in perfection, cut open, to shew the Stamen and Pistil, 4. Section 
of the Germen, to shew the Ovule.—Magnified. 
