half, entire behind, obscurely and sparingly veined, midrib 
blunt, and slightly prominent below. Flowers solitary, 
axillary, collected towards the extremities of the shoots, 
longer than the leaves. Peduncles three lines long, green, 
filiform. Calyx half an inch long, green, five-cleft, seg- 
ments subulate, glutinous within and without, the upper 
broadest and longest, the two lateral ones shorter and nar- 
rower than those below. Corolla above an inch long, yel- 
low, ringent, curved, pubescent both within and without, 
the hairs distilling from their extremities a viscid, colour- 
less fluid, bilabiate; upper lip very broad, and folded down, 
by the sides of the teal four toothed, teeth subulate, — 
those at the sides reflected, and their apices approaching 
behind the two in the centre, which are erect, with their 
apices somewhat spreading ; lower lip much more narrow, 
linear, entire, blunt, revolute, tube inflated at its base, nec- 
tariferous. Stamens didynamous, arising from the inflated 
portion of the tube, exserted, (projecting half an inch be- 
yond the corolla) ; filaments thread-like, nearly straight, 
yellow, inserted into the back of the anthers; anthers ob- 
long, bilobular, with a rounded, continuous border ; lobes 
bursting in front; pollen yellow. Stigma minute, blunt, 
cleft, greenish. Style purple, filiform, (four and a half 
lines) longer than the stamens, over which it is curved. 
—— ovate, slightly flattened, yellow, greenish towards 
its apex. 
This “species is a native of New Holland, from whence 
seeds were imported by F. Hencuman, Esq. and plants 
raised by Mr. Mackay, in his nursery at Clapton, along 
with many other additions to our greenhouses from the 
same quarter. The specimen above described was kindly 
communicated by him to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edin- 
burgh, in October last. It fl vorinning of 
March. Graham. : owered in the beginning 
a 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3. : F 4. Section of 
ditto, magnified. Young Fruit, nat. size. 
