obsolete on the superior surface. Flowers axillary, soli- 
tary, pale lilac, on short scaly pedicels; pedicels slightl 
downy. Grauam. Cal. deeply quinquefid,.of five rounded, 
equal, somewhat downy, fringed lobes, small in proportion 
to the corolla. Petals oblong, or ovato-oblong, with three 
lines in the centre. Stamens ten, hypogynous, incurved and 
connivent at the top: -Filgments alternately longer, taper- 
ing, white, with numerous spreading hairs in the front at the 
margin: the longer ones:with a swelling, which is beset 
with small, spherical glands, s beneath the anther, but 
ovate-acuminated, largest. on the shortest filament, and the 
last to discharge the pollen, which is of a deep orange 
colour. Piséil much shorter than the stamens: Germen 
of five lobes, dotted with glands seated upon a fleshy base ; 
each lobe is one-celled, and has two ovules: Style of five 
united into one, which scarcely rises above the lobes of the 
germen, is sunk’ between them, and which at the base has 
a few white hairs; | Hs bit HS 
‘Communicated from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, by 
Dr. Grauam, who described it in JamEson’s Journal, under 
the name of Crowea scabra. I fear, that I may’ have my- 
self, from too hasty a comparison of the plant, have been 
accessory to that gentleman’s considering it to be a Crowea: 
for it is the same as what is sent by our valued correspond- 
ent Mr. Fraser, under the name of Crowea saligna, and 
Dr. Srezer has published it under that name. It is, howe- 
ver, as Dr. Granam has ascertained, a true Eriosremon, 
and certainly the E: salictfolium, which is admirably describ- 
ed by Sir James Surru, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, where, as well 
as by De Canpotte, it is acknowledged to have quite the 
appearance ofa CrowWEA. , 
Its flowering season is April: but it ‘does not grow freely, 
though treated with the same care as the generality of New 
Holland plants : but ‘it is unquestionably one highly ‘deserv- 
ine of cultivation. = 
t was introduced to the gardens of this country by Mr. 
Fraser, and to him we are likewise indebted for our dried 
imens. / 
_ It is curious, that Sprencet makes Ertosremon mascu- 
line, Smara feminine, and De Canpo1te neuter :—the 
former is surely correct, Jua, a stamen, is indeed neuter ; but 
ornjsv, oves IS masculine, from which our word immediately 
comes. 
Fig. 1. Petals. 2. “Shorter Stamen; back view. ‘3. Longer Stamen, back 
view. 4. Upper Part of the Stamen, front view. 5. Ditto of the Upper 
Part of a longer Stamen, 8. Scaly Pedicel and Calyx.—Magnified. 
