yellow where included, either solitary, rhomboid, subacute, 

 with the apex turned up, when they are placed between the 

 flowers, or geminate, round, and placed above or below 

 them. Calyx four-parted, covered with appressed pubes- 

 cence ; claws linear, yellow, the spoon-shaped segments of 

 the limb reddish, nodding. Anthers elliptical, subsessile in 

 the cavities of the calyx. Style twice as long as the calyx, 

 shining, of a deep purple colour except at the base and 

 apex, where it is yellow, deciduous, rigid, apex nodding. 

 Stigma an abrupt, glandular, scarcely-swollen termination 

 to the style, retained for a time within the calyx, as in the 

 other species, and when liberated, covered with the yellow, 

 granular pollen, which gives it a capitate form. 



This species flowered in the greenhouse of the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Garden, in November, 1830, immediately after 

 B. speciosa, figured at t. 3052 of this work, and continued 

 also in blossom at the same time with it ; the two species 

 forming a good contrast in their colours and manner of 

 flowering. The present seems quite different from B. 

 microstachya of Cavanilles and B. attenuata of Brown, 

 with both of which Sprengel unites his B. littoralis. 



I have assigned the specific name to this plant doubtfully, 

 and have quoted all the authorities above cited, with hesi- 

 tation ; excepting the Botanical Register ; because there 

 seems some reason to question its identity with the plant 

 sent from New Holland by Mr. Brown, and cultivated at 

 Kew, under the specific appellation of B. littoralis. The 

 specimen which flowered with us was received in 1828 

 from Mr. Mackay of Clapton, without a name ; again in 

 1829, he kindly communicated a seedling, marked B. 

 collina, which has proved to be the same, differing only in 

 being destitute of veins on the back of the leaf. I have a 

 specimen from Mr. Fraser, of a plant that must rank very 

 near this, and is chiefly distinguishable by its leaves being 

 longer, narrower, and quite entire, except near the apex, 

 where there are four small teeth, and by the branches being 

 much less hairy. In colour and in the manner of flowering, 

 it perfectly coincides. Graham. 



Fig. 1. Two Flowers. 2. Stigma, with part of the Style.— Magnified. 



