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genus Calytrix, or as Mr. Schauer writes it, Calycothrix, of 

 which a few species have occasionally appeared in curious 

 collections, and one has been figured in this Botanical Register, 

 t. 409. They are however common bushes in New Holland, 

 when not in blossom looking like small heaths, and remarkable 

 for the singular structure of their flowers, whose parts are ge- 

 nerally fringed with long slender hairs or teeth ; whence the 

 English name we have proposed for them instead of that of 

 Cha-mse-lau-ci-e-ae. 



Fifty-nine species are enumerated, disposed in eleven 

 genera. The genera Polyzone and Hedaroma are reduced 

 to Genetyllis ; and Chrysorrhoe, familiar to many of our 

 readers on account of the figure published of it in the Appendix 

 to the Botanical Register, is regarded as a form of Verti- 

 cordia. Well may the latter name have been given to some 

 of these charming plants, for nothing more lovely could ever 

 have been found by the poets as a type of the goddess Venus. 

 We understand that some of the species are at last in our 

 collections, although they have not flowered ; and we cannot 

 too strongly urge those who are in communication with Swan 

 River to possess themselves of these most beautiful plants. 



184. BROMHEADIA paliistris. 



When Mr. Finlayson was in the Malay archipelago, he 

 found a curious Orchidaceous plant at Sineapore with the 

 habit of Epidendrum elongatum ; and from specimens of it, 

 almost destroyed by insects, which I examined some years 

 since in Dr. Wallich's herbarium, I referred it with great 

 doubt to Grammatophyllum, under the name of G. Finlay- 

 sonianum, {Gen. 6f Sp." Orch. t. 173.) This plant has lately 

 flowered at Penllergan in South Wales with J. D. Llewelyn, 

 Esq. who received it from Cuming, with the memorandum 

 that it had been " dug out of a bog in Sumatra." Having 

 now had the advantage of examining a perfect specimen in 

 flower, I find that although nearly allied to Grammatophyl- 

 lum, it is in fact very distinct. 1 therefore avail myself of 

 the opportunity of adding to the list of genera the name of 

 Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead, Bart. F.R.S. whose investi- 

 gations of the natural affinities of plants are well known to 

 systematical Botanists. It may be distinguished by the fol- 

 lowino- character. 



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