fine lines, gradually attenuated into a sharp point, their 
margins beset with short rigid sete or prickles, all pointing 
upwards, all of them perfectly glabrous and somewhat 
glossy. Scape shorter than the leaves, erect, flexuose, terete, 
downy, with a lanceolate bractea near the base, and others 
smaller at the extremity, where the scape divides into many 
branches and bears a rather dense corymb of pale, cream- 
coloured flowers, with sometimes a single bracteated flower 
lower down upon the scape. Perianth campanulate, with 
a small subulate bractea at its base, half five-cleft, its tube 
in the lower part incorporated with the germen, with the 
segments ovato-lanceolate, downy, with short branched 
pubescence externally, glabrous within. Stamens six, in- 
serted into the base of the segments. Filaments very short. 
Anthers linear, oblong, two-celled, yellow. Germen ovate, 
its lower half forming one piece with the base of the peri- 
anth, tapering gradually upwards into a hollow style, and 
tipped with an obscurely three-lobed stigma. The germen 
has three cells, and three longitudinal fleshy receptacles, 
in the inner angles, covered with ovules. Capsule clothed 
with the persistent perianth, and opening through the per- 
sistent style to its base into three valves. 
Of this curious Genus, four species are described by Mr. 
Brown, all natives of the Southern shores of New Holland: 
but none, that I am aware, has yet been figured, nor any 
cultivated in our gardens, until seeds of the present indivi- 
dual were received at the Botanic Garden both of Edinburgh 
and Glasgow, which both now possess living plants. The 
specimen here figured was communicated by Dr. GraHAM, 
from the Edinburgh collection, in January, 1830. We are 
indebted to Mr. Fraser for the introduction of this plant ; 
as I am likewise for well dried specimens, from which the 
fruit here represented was taken, Mr. Brown observes, 
that this Genus differs from Aytcozanraus in its perianth 
and style; and from Lanarta (Arconasia. J rae, in the 
structure of the ovary and fruit. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil. 4. Section of the Germen. 5. 
Ripe Capsule enveloped in the Perianth, natural size. 6. Ripe Capsule, 
from which the Perianth is removed.—All but fig. 5, natural size. 
