base and above the middle, where it is caducous ; solitary, 
or generally growing two together, rather small. Germen 
and calyx green, distinctly dotted: the former has five cells, 
each cell containing many ovules; the latter is formed of 
five rounded entire lobes. Petals nearly orbicular, white, 
shortly unguiculate. Stamens fifteen, three at the base 
of each segment of the calyx, incurved. Anthers reddish 
brown. Style about as long as the calyx. Stigma ca- 
pitate. 
A greenhouse plant; a native of New South Wales; for 
which the Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted to the 
kindness of Mr. Arron, who sent it from the Royal Gar- 
dens at Kew, under the name which is here adopted. The 
number of the stamens in the flowers of this plant, (fif- 
teen), and these, as far as I can see, constant to each 
blossom, give this species as good a right to rank with 
PERMUM as with Bacx1a, which has been considered 
to have five or eight stamens; and I feel myself at a loss to 
define the generic character. Sir James Smrra has long 
ago observed, that,in every certain Lerrospermum the leaves 
are alternate ; and Mr. Brown remarks in his learned disser- 
tation on the Botany of Terra Australis, that ** he refers to 
Bacxia, Imericarta of Suir, and the opposite leaved 
Leprosrerma.” Thus constituting ‘‘ an extensive Austra- 
lian genus, having its maximum in the principal parallel, 
extending to the highest southern latitude, and hardly 
existing within the tropic : one species, however, has been 
found in New Caledonia, and that from which the genus 
was formed, is a native of China.” 
Bacxia camphorata* flowers in the month of J uly, and 
requires the same soil and treatment as the New Holland 
plants in general. 
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Fig. 1. Pair of flowers from the axil of a leaf. 2. Single flower. 3. Petal 
4. Calyx and Germen. 5. Section of the Germen. 6. Two pairs of opposite 
leaves. 7. Single leaf—All, more or less, magnified. 
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_* Asa species, it has considerable resemblance with the B. diosmifolia of 
Ronee in Linn. Trans. y. 8. p. 298. t. 13; but that plant is described as 
having eight stamens, and the lobes of the calyx serrated, as well as the” 
