informed us, that the plant was defcribed by him in the above- 

 cited work ; and, becaufe it feemed to us rather more natural 

 to confider the radius as confiding of the paleae, the mod 

 interior of which have a fimilar though fmaller white petal-like 

 appendix, than as the inner feries of the fcales of the calyx, we 

 have chofen to retain it. 



This fhrub is a native of the fouth coaft of New-Holland, 

 where it was difcovered by Mr. Brown. Introduced into the 

 Kew Gardens, according to Mr. Aiton, in 1803, ty ^ r * 

 Peter Good, whence it rauft have emanated to other col- 

 lections. Communicated by Meflrs. Malcolm, from their 

 Nurfery at Kenhngton. 



