452 Dn. Smitn’s Account, &c. . 
ao about an inch and a half long and. half as broad, on a fhort 
footítalk, clothed with fcattered hairs, fomewhat (ícimetar- 
fhaped, perfectly compreffed, obtufe, with a fmall point, of 
one cell, and extended into a flat border along the upper edge, 
confiderably beyond the infertion of the feeds. Seeds 7 or 8, 
black, comprefied, each ftanding on a curved white pedicle. 
'This fhrub blooms abundantly in its native country all the year 
through. It has likewife flowered in feveral gardens in England, 
Mr. Fairbairn prefented a living fpecimen to the Society laft 
fummer. 
A figure of this beautiful plant will foon be given in the work 
I have undertaken on the botany of New Holland, 
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