green and naked above, below, covered with white tomen- 
tum, through which many small reticulated veins appear ; 
when young covered with yellow tomentum on both sides, 
sinuato-serrated, occasionally entire, serratures mucronate, 
middle-rib prominent behind. Flowers terminal, head two 
to three inches long, less than half the length of the leaves, 
which are generally crowded at the base. Calyx silky. 
We have a plant which has not yet flowered, but which 
I can consider only a variety, that is more vigorous in its 
growth ; the trunk swollen into joints; the branches more 
erect ; the leaves more decidedly verticilled ; more of them 
entire, and many of them lanceolate, having evident nearly 
transverse primary veins, the pubescence on the young 
shoots being red-brown.” Graham. 
Introduced to our gardens, from the neighbourhood of 
_ Port Jackson, in 1788, by Mr. Tuomas Warson : but, 
cording to Hortus Kewensis, it does not appear to have 
flowered when the second edition of that work was pub- 
lished. Our drawing was made from a fine plant which 
flowered at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in May, 1827. 
The seeds had been sent to Dr. Graham, in 1819, by Mr. 
Fraser. Both from Dr. Granam and Mr. Brown’s obser- 
vations on the species, it seems to be liable to much varia- 
tion: the latter gentleman indeed observes, “ Species poly- 
morpha, cui nimis affines sunt B. insularis et compar.” 
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Fig. 1. Two F owers, with their bractee. 2. i rtion of 
the leaf to shew the reticulatio ns.—Magni 7 a Remcee of * pore 
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