the upper surface ; middle rib strong and prominent both 
above and below ; vezns few and obscure, the margin 
slightly reflected, toothed. Racemes terminal and axillary, 
rarely compound, bractea ; rachis, pedicels, and calyx 
slightly hairy and viscid. Bractee subulate, solitary at 
the base of each pedicel and shorter than it. Flowers 
nodding ; segments acute, reflected, light green, deciduous 
with the other parts of the flower. Stamens eight ; Fila- 
ments very short. Anthers large, bilocular, and each lobe 
deeply grooved, bursting along the side, erect, and arranged 
ina square form around the centre of the flower, yellow. 
Pollen abundant, spherical, yellow. Pisti! abortive. 
Seeds of this plant were received at the Edinburgh 
Botanic Garden, in 1824, from Mr. Fraser, Colonial Bota- 
nist, New South Wales. It flowers freely in the green- 
house, in the months’of February and March. Grauam. 
Professor GraHam considered that this plant might 
probably be the Doponza pri of De Canpoxte, 
which is among the species dubie of that author. But the 
character is so short, that it is impossible to refer any 
species decidedly to it. The present plant is, however, 
nnquestionably the Dop. attenuata of Mr. Attan Cun- 
NINGHAM’s account of some new plants, published in Mr. 
Barron Fietp’s “ Memoirs relating to New South Wales’’. 
That indefatigable Botanist found it in the channel of 
sa River. — 
Ve possess in our Herbarium likewise, specimens gather- 
ed by Mr. Fraser among the Blue Mountains ; some of 
them being females, have given me the opportunity of re- 
presenting a flower of that sex and likewise the fruit. The 
former has a tripartite, reflexed, calyx ; an ovate triangular 
germen, a filiform style, and a clavate wrinkled stigma. 
The capsule has three broad, diaphanous nerved wings. 
Fig.}. Male Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Pollen. 4. Female Flower. 5. 
Capsule (nat. size). 6. Capsule-—All but Fig. 5. more or less magnified. 
