the segments lanceolate, subulate, membranaceous, white, 
erect, > sap oni about halfas long as the tube of the co- 
rolla, base surrounded by several small, imbricated, 
lanceolate, greenish scales. Corolla white: tube obl 
ventricose, nearly as long as the leaves ; limb five-cleft, — 
ovate, acute, patent, or reflexed. Stamens inserted just © 
within the mouth of the tube. Filaments very short, — 
searcely any; Anther linear-oblong, one-celled, bright — 
—_— and papillose, Pollen pale yellow; its grains in — 
Germen globose, surrounded by five, yellow, glands. — 
+ heey about as long as the tube of the corolla, | 
white, pellucid with a central line. Stigma capitate. 
Discovered by Antan Cuonnincuam, Esq. in October, — 
1822, in peaty bogs at Blackheath, on the Blue Mountains — 
of New Holland, at an elevation of 3,400 feet above the | 
level of the sea, and by him introduced to the Royal Gar- — 
dens at Kew; whence our specimen was most obligingly — 
«it was wer and in ty in the ouse in 
the month of March 1832. b | 
_ Fig. }. Leaf. 9 Flower. 3. 3. 3. Anther in of view. — 
| 4G ins of 5. Puta: different points 
