which themselves are armed with numerous subulate 
spines, about an inch long, sometimes naked, sometimes 
bearing a few leaves, at other times only the rudiments of 
leaves. The leaves are from half an inch to an inch long, 
alternate or fasciculated, generally remote, oblongo-lanceo- 
late, nearly sessile, toothed, yellow-green, somewhat rigid. 
Flowers from the axils of the leaves, or from the older wood 
of the branches when the leaves have fallen away, solitary, 
or in clusters of two to four. Pedicels short, decurved, with 
two small bracteas at or near the base. Calyx of five broadly- 
ovate, imbricated, somewhat unequal leaves, combined at 
the base. Petals five, linear-lanceolate, rather unequal in 
size, twisted and imbricated in the acuminated bud, at 
length reflexed and revolute, not unlike those of a Prrto- 
sporuM, yellow. Anthers five, combined into an urceolate, 
swollen, membranaceous, orange-coloured tube, free only 
at the acuminated extremity, where each of the linear seg- 
ments has its sides involute, its extremity toothed. Cells 
of the anthers double, oblong, yellowish. At the back of 
each anther is an erect, cuneate, yellowish scale. Pistil 
very small. Germen ovate, tapering into a short style, 
with a bifid, acute stigma. 
_ Few persons, on first looking at this thorny, rigid, inele- 
gant shrub, would suspect it to be allied to the same tribe 
with those universal favourites, the Violets: but an examl- 
nation of the flowers will show that Mr. Brown has done 
rightly in referring this his own Genus to that, or near to 
that, family, between it and the Poty¢atew as he thinks. The 
anthers, more or less combined in all the Violets, are here 
still more remarkably so, to that degree that they form an 
urceolate and inflated membrane, not unlike the covering 
to the fruit of a Carex. This highly curious plant has been 
introduced to the Royal Garden of Kew by the indefatigable 
Mr. Aran Cunnineuam, and a fine flowering specimen was 
obligingly sent to me by Mr. Arron, in March, 1832. “ It 
grows,” Mr. Cunnineuam observes, “ in shaded situations 
in the Ikawarra district on the sea-coast to the Southwar 
of Port Jackson and elsewhere in the colony, where, how- 
ever, it isa rare plant. Sir Joserx Banks appears to have 
found it near Port J ackson.’’ 
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Fig. 1. A Flower and Bud. 2. Petal. 3. § Singi® 
0 : = . 3. Stamens and Scales. 4- ; 
Scale. 5. Pistil. 6, Staminal Tube laid open : magnified. 
