establishing new genera ; in doing which, Sir James Edward* 

 Smith led the way by describing several in his specimen of 

 the Botany of New-Holland, in the first volume of the Annals 

 of Botany, and in the fourth and ninth volumes of the Tran- 

 sactions of the Linnean Society. To these genera, all of 

 which have been adopted by succeeding botanists, Mr. Robert 

 Brown, (who, from his residence in that Country and his 

 situation since his return, has had the greatest opportunities 

 of studying these plants; has added several more. 



PuLTENiEA retusa was among the first plants from the 

 lettlement of New South Wales cultivated in our gardens, the 

 date of its introduction, by Sir Joseph Banks, being in the 

 year 1789 ; yet no figure of it has, that we know of, been 

 hitherto published. 



It may be necessary in order to reconcile the seeming 

 contradiction in the characters given of this plant by the 

 two celebrated botanists above quoted to observe, that what 

 Brown calls bractes, are considered by Smith as appendixes 

 of the calyx, and his bractes, which in this species are 

 minute scales, are situated upon, or more generally at the base 

 of, the peduncle. 



Our drawing was taken several years ago from a plant 

 communicated by Messrs. Loddiges and Sons. Propagated 

 by cuttings or seeds. Flowers in April and May. Requires 

 to be protected from frost, 



