Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 177 



I am not more satisfied than before with the generic name of this species. 

 The structure and properties seem to require that a new eenus should 

 be constituted, to contain this and many others, native of India ; and 

 probably the structure of the anther will materially assist in furnish- 

 ing a character. 



Persoonia pallida. 



P. pallida; foliis filiformibus, canaliculatis, mucronatis, aequalibus; flori- 

 bus congestis ; pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis, rectis, unifloris ; pe- 

 rianthiis subglabris ; stylis ovario monospermo loncioribus, rectis. 



Description. — Shrub erect. Stem (in our specimen 3 feet high) flexuose, 

 round, brown. Branches verticelled, ascending, yellowish -green, leafy, 

 nearly devoid of pubescence. Leaves (1 inch long) all alike, linear, al- 

 most filiform, but flattened and slightly channelled above, mucronate, at 

 the base somewhat attenuated, and adpressed for a little way, at first sub- 

 erect, afterwards spreading, sparingly ciliated when young, subsequently 

 nearly naked, minutely warted, light green. Flowers collected in clusters, 

 which surround the branches near their extremities, yellow, shorter than 

 the leaves. Peduncles very short, axillary, solitary, straight, nearly gla- 

 brous, except at the base of the perianth, where there are a few spreading 

 hairs. Perianth tetraphyllous, before expanding (4^ lines long) orange 

 coloured, contracted above the germen, from which, upward, it is cylin- 

 drical, and crowned with four diverging awl-shaped points ; afterwards 

 more yellow and paler, revolute in its upper half, each segment termi- 

 nated by a mucro projecting obliquely from its posterior surfece. Glands 4, 

 obovate, erect, small, rising from the receptacle within the perianth, 

 persisting, becoming brown. Stamens 4 ; filaments arising from the base 

 of the perianth, and united to it over their whole length ; anthers free, 

 longer than the filaments, blunt, linear, arising from below the middle 

 of the perianth, erect, and applied to the style, towards their apices re- 

 volute, bilocular, loculaments bursting along the front, and each with a 

 longitudinal imperfect septum ; pollen granules shining, an^lar. Pistil 

 straight, rather longer than the stamens, equal to the perianth exclu- 

 sive of the mucro ; stigma, terminal, oblique, concave, slightly gibbous 

 on its lower side ; style straight, or slightly flexuose, tapering, smooth ; 

 germen on a short footstalk, smooth, gibbous, many times shorter than 

 the style, evalvular, fleshy, monospermous. The whole plant, the pol- 

 len only excepted, becomes brown in drying. 



This species must stand next to P. jnnifdia^ which, however, is at once 

 distinguished by its lurid colour, its much greater degree of pubescence, 

 by there being no portion of the leaves at the base adpressed, by these 

 neither being flattened nor channelled, and by the floral leaves being 

 shorter than the others. Our plant was raised from seed sent to my 

 friend Captain Wauch from New South Wales, and by him obligingly 

 communicated to the Botanic Garden in 1824. It has received in the 

 greenhouse the ordinary treatment of New Holland plants, and floweretl 

 very freely in September and October last. 



OCTOBER— DECEMBER 1828. 



