pubescent or glabrous. The peduncles are axillary, aris- 
ing singly from several of the upper leaves; so that taken 
collectively, they form a sort of corymb. Each peduncle 
is simple or forked, pubescent, furnished with remote, 
ovate bracteas, and terminated by several sessile, pubes- 
cent, whitish flowers, each having an ovate, pubescent, 
and ciliated bractea at its base. Perianth tubular, slightly 
curved, two-lipped at the extremity ; the wpper lip entire, 
ovate, gibbous or fornicate at the back below the point ; 
the under lip trifid; the segments ovate. Stamens four, 
placed just within the mouth of the tube: Filaments dou- 
ble ; three alone bearing anthers, and these are placed in 
the upper lip of them; the two lateral ones have one lobe, 
and the central one two, purple. Pollen yellow, globular, 
with three points or angles. Pistil: Germen superior 
obconical, hairy, and terminated by a long simple pappus ; 
Style geniculated filiform ; Stigma spreading, toothed. 
Of this genus, nine species are enumerated by Mr. 
Brown in his Prodromus; but no species appears hitherto 
to have been cultivated in our gardens, till Mr. Attan Cun- 
NINGHAM, in 1823, sent seeds from New Holland to the Royal 
gardens at Kew, where they produced flowering plants, in 
the greenhouse, in the month of May, 1826. From a 
drawing in Mr. Arron’s possession, the annexed represen- 
tation was made, aided by dried specimens for the dissec- 
tions. } > 
Judging from these dried imens, C. taxifolium is lia- 
ble to aes variation, in ge and pubeacones of the 
foliage. Sreser’s plant has the leaves twice the size of 
that here given, and I have, on the other hand, specimens 
gathered by Mr. Fraser, whose leaves are so narrow, that 
the plants might almost be considered as intermediate be- 
tween taxifolium and ericifolium. 
Fig. 1. Flower and Bractee. 2. Upper part of a Perianth laid open. 3. 
Front view of a Stamen. 4. Back view of ditto. 5. Pollen. 6, Germen, 
with its pappus, style, and stigma.—Magnified. 
