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X. Characters of three w Species of Boronia. By James. 
Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.. 
Read ret 18, 1804.. 
Amone a number of new or rare plants, with whel Mr. Men- 
zies has enriched my herbarium from the western coast of New 
Holland, arg three species of Boronia, all hithertonondescript, of 
which I beg leave to offer some account to. the Linnean Society. 
This beautiful genus was first published i in my Tracts on Na- 
tural History, in 1798, p.287. Four species are there described 
and figured, of wbich the B. pinnata alone has been mentioned 
. by any other writer, being the only species hitherto seen alive in 
Europe. Of this Mr. Andrews has. published a figure in his 
Botany, and Mons. Ventenat has also given a figure and descrip- 
tion of the same in his Jardin de la Malmaison. It is remarkable 
that B. serrulata has not yet been introduced into our gardens, 
being plentiful, and much admired, at Port Jackson, and pro- 
bably not difficult to. be raised from seed. 
The essential generic character of Boronia, consisting in the 
anthere being situated each on a peculiar slender footstalk, 
quite distinct from the proper filament, and inserted somewhere 
about the blunt or glandular top of that part, is confirmed by 
these 1 new ‘Species, all of which. have. the same structure, only 
differing among each other as species. ofa good natural genus 
usually do. differ in the particular conformation of that part, 
whatever it may be, whose general figure marks the generic. cha- 
racter. 
