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MK. KirPIST ON TWO SPECIES OE GENETYLLIS. 49 



be still undescribed. Of these I have prepared the following cha- 

 racters, at the request of Dr. Meisner, he not having been able 

 to obtain access to specimens of the plants. They both belong 

 to the group with enlarged and coloured bracts, of which two 

 very ornamental species have been recently introduced to our 

 gardens, and figured in the number of the ' Botanical Magazine' 

 for July last. 



1. Genetyllis {Involucrata^ fimbeiata, erecta, ramosa, glabra ; foliis con- 

 fertis, plerumque oppositis, decussatis, ellipticis, obtusis, supra convexis, 

 subtiis pallidis, margine ciliatis ; capitulis terminalibus cernuis, 8-10- 

 florisj involucro campanulato pollicari; bracteis ecarinatis, elliptico- v. 

 ovato-oblongis, margine fimbriatis ; interioribus membranaceis, roseis, apice 

 hiantibus ; exterioribus ovatis, herbaceis, quadrifariam imbricatis ; brac- 

 teolis lanceolatis, acuminatis, carinatis, flores sessiles subsequantibus ; calyce 

 ovato-cylindrico, basi laevissimo, crustaceo, minute punctato, fauce con- 

 tracts,, corrugata, lobis minutissimis ; petalis ovatis, acutis, membranaceis ; 

 staminodiis filiformibus, filamenta subulata sequantibus ; stylo filiformi, 

 longe exserto, apice hispido. 



Hob. in Australia austro-occidentali. Drummond, coll. 5. no. 99 ! 



This appears to be the plant with thyme-like ciliated leaves and 

 large rose-coloured bracts, mentioned by Mr. Drummond (in a 

 letter, dated Cape Eiche, Oct. 29, 1848, and published in the 

 * Journal of Botany ' for 1849) as having been gathered by him 

 on Congineerup, in company with another large-bracted Genetyllis 

 with heath-like leaves, and bracts without cilia, which I believe to 

 be the following species. 



Genetyllis Jimbriata may be readily distinguished from all its 

 congeners of the ' Involucratce ' section by its leaves and bracts 

 both being beautifully ciliated ; G. oederioides, Turcz., of which the 

 bracts are even more strongly fringed, having entire triquetrous 

 leaves, while those of Jimbriata are elliptical, revolute, and some*, 

 what like those of G. citriodora, but smaller, 



2. Genetyllis (Involucratce) Meisneei, erecta, fruticulosa, 2-3-chotome 

 ramosa, glaberrima ; foliis sparsis, patulis, lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, mar- 

 gine revolutis integerrimis, dorso subcarinatis ; capitulis terminalibus 

 nutantibus multi- (8-10-) floris ; involucri campanulati bracteis interioribus 

 (6-8) elliptico-oblongis, membranaceis, roseis, integris v. apice serrulatis, 

 breve mucronatis ; exterioribus dupld minoribus, subherbaceis, ovatis, 

 longe acuminatis ; bracteolis lineari-lanceolatis acutis, floribus sessilibus 

 purpureis vernicosis paullo longioribus ; calyce ovato-cylindrico lsevi, lobis 

 exiguis petalis ovatis niultd brevioribus ; nlamentis staminodia superanti- 



; stylo subulato longe exserto, apice barbato. 

 Hal. cum praecedente. Drummond, coll. 5. no. 100! (& 101 !). 

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