Flowers minute, greenish-yellow, in dense, axillary, short 
spikes or clusters, most abundant on the underside of the 
branches. Calyx of five unequal, imbricated leaves or 
scales, scarcely different from the two or three bractee at 
the base, except in being larger, pale green. Corolla rather 
hypocrateriform than infundibuliform, the tube inflated, 
contracted at the mouth, and there closed with hairs; the 
limb of five linear-oblong horizontally spreading segments : 
near the extremity is a transverse tuft of rather thick hairs 
not quite erect, but a little inclined inwards. Stamens in- 
serted into the mouth of the corolla, bent back, so that the 
oblong, orange-coloured anthers are lodged in the sinuses 
of the limb ofthe corolla. Pistil: Germen ovate, surround- 
ed in its lower half by the large cup-shaped, lobed nectary. 
Style short, thick, dark green. Stigma obtuse. 
: Introduced to the Royal Kew Gardens, where it flowers 
in the month of March, by Mr. Atuan Cunnincuam, and 
sent to us by Mr. Arron. The Edinburgh Garden is in- 
debted to that source for the possession of the plant, where 
we saw it blossoming in 1831. As an ornamental green- 
house plant, it cannot boast of much beauty, until the 
flowers are examined with a microscope, when the delicate 
structure of the corolla, the singular tuft of hairs at the ex- 
tremity of the segment of the corolla, and the rich orange- 
_ coloured anthers, lying in the sinuses of those segments, 
become apparent. 
_ Mr. Brown discovered the plant on the Southern shores 
of New Holland, and Mr. Cunnineuam found it “ on the 
exposed summits of sandy ridges connected with ‘ Bald 
Head,’ King George’s Sound,” where he observed it, bear- 
ing its white, drupaceous fruit, in J anuary, 1822. 
a Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Extremity of the Segment of a Petal, with its Tuft of 
airs. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil and Nectary. 5. Back of a Leaf: magnified. 
