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spreading heath-like leaves, and round heads of very deep 

 violet ; all the others are pretty, and worthy of cultivation, 

 althouo-h not so strikingly beautiful as those just mentioned. 

 Still more remarkable than these is the magnificent Chry- 

 sorrhoe niteus (Tab. I.), whose yellow flowers of metallic 

 lustre form masses of golden stars some feet in diameter; 

 this plant, which I described some years since {Comjoanioji 

 to Botanical Magazine, vol. ii. p. 357), is a small bush, and 

 certainly one of the most interesting species that could be 

 introduced ; by Dr. Endlicher it is reduced to the genus Verti- 

 cordia, but I think the character assigned to it in the work 

 alluded to is sufficient to define the genus ; a comparison of 

 Tab. I. and Tab. II. A, will sufficiently explain in what the 

 difference consists between Chrysorrhot and Verticordia. 

 To the former of these genera there is a new species to add, 

 not less beautiful than the original, but with obovate serrated 

 leaves, on which account it may be called Chrysorrhoe ser- 

 rata.^ The Verticordias are bushes with small, usually 

 heathy, very fragrant, leaves, and corymbs or racemes of 

 white, pink, or yellow flowers ; several species have been 

 already described, among which V. insignis, End!. (Tab. II. A) 

 is one of the commonest and prettiest ; to these I have to 

 add V. heliantha^ a lovely plant with corymbs of large deep 

 yellow feathery flowers ; V. acerosa,^^ a species resembling 

 the last in habit, but with acerose leaves and smaller paler 

 flowers, which change in drying to a bright deep green ; and 

 two species ^^ with pretty white or blush ones. Of the genus 



(7) Calytrix angulata ; glaberrima, ramulls angulatis, foliis linearibus obtusis 

 carinatis patulis, bracteis obovatis obtusis ultra medium connatis calycis 

 tubo brevioribus, aristis petalis paulo longioribus, floribus icosandris axilla- 

 ribus. Flowers yellow. 



(^^ Chrysorrhoe serrata ; ramulls scabriusculis, foliis obovatis carnosis dorso 

 subtriquetris ciliato-serratis, sepalls multifidis plumosis, petalis ovatis pecti- 

 natis, filamentis sterilibus petaloideis oblongis fertilibus sequalibus. 



W Verticordia heliantha ; foliis carnosis linearibus mucronatis compressis 

 dorso convexis, corymbis laxis, bracteis connatis persistentibus muticis, 

 sepalis multifidis plumosis, petalis multifidis glabris, filamentis sterilibus 

 ovato-triangularibus serratis, antheris appendice bicorni auctis. 



(1*) Verticordia acerosa ; ramulis compressis scabris, foliis acerosis acuminatis 

 glabris superioribus floralibusque ovatis, corymbis densis, bracteis muticis 

 deciduis, sepalis multifidis plumosis, petalis multipartitis glabris, filamentis 

 sterilibus lanceolatis pectinatis, antheris muticis. 



(u) \ e'cixcoxd^ia. densijlora ; foliis linearibus triquetris obtusis, corymbis capitatis 

 multifloris, bracteis deciduis sub apice cucullatis, calycis tubo villosissimo, 



