Our plant, it will be at once seen, belongs to the latter 
section, and has at first sight so little of the character of an 
umbelliferous plant, as easily to deceive any but an observ- 
ing Botanist. From its coriaceous leaves and frutescent 
stems, and crowded, white flowers, it might almost be 
taken for a Diosma. I am indebted to Mr. Arron for the 
specimen here represented. It isa native of Port Jackson, 
where it inhabits dry barren, rocky situations. ‘ With 
us,’ Mr. Attan Cunnincuam writes from Kew, “ it is a 
hardy greenhouse plant, and was first introduced to our 
culture in the King’s Gardens, from a solitary individual 
springing up in a box of Orcuipez received from New South 
Wales in 1825. In that collection, it makes a variety 
among other compatriots ; where, although it belongs to a 
family possessing few external attractions to the Horticul- 
turist ; it nevertheless recommends itself to the care of the 
cultivator, not less by the freedom of its growth, than by 
the ready disposition it exhibits to produce its ample um- 
bels of flowers at various seasons.”’ 
Descr. A shrub, seldom more than two feet high, of 
diffuse, branching, twiggy habit, clothed with brownish 
bark. Leaves chiefly on the younger branches, alternate, 
lanceolate, attenuated at the base, and sharply acuminated 
at the extremity, coriaceous, glabrous, entire, marked with 
parallel nerves. Unmbels terminal, compound. Involucres 
and involucels scarsely different from the leaves, the former, 
however, much longer than the umbels. Limb of the calyx 
consisting of five sharp teeth. Petals five, spreading, white, 
elliptical, entire. Stamens five. Filaments spreading : 
anthers globose. Styles two, subulate: Stigmas capitate. 
Fruit elliptic, approaching to orbicular, compressed, with 
three broad, dorsal, ridges, much tuberculated ; the two 
lateral ones smooth. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Young Fruit: magnified. 
