[Plate 8.] 
THE TETRANDROUS BORONIA. 
(BORONIA TETRANDRA.) 
A Greenhouse Shrub, from New Holland, belonging to the Natural Order of Rue worts 
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THE TETRANDROUS BORONIA. A smooth shrub. 
Leaves pinnated ; leaflets in three or four pairs, with an 
odd one, linear, blunt. Peduncles three-parted shorter than 
the leaves. Stamens 8, four being smaller than the rest. 
BORONIA TETRANDRA ; laevis, foliis pinnatis, foliolis 
3-4-jugis cum impari linearibus obtusis, pedunculis trifidis 
foliis brevioribus, staminibus 4 minoribus. 
Boronia tetrandra : Labillardiere, Stirpes Nov. Holl, i., p. 98, t. 125 ; alias B. microphylla of the Nwseries; 
alias B. pilosa Labillardiere. 
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blunder this plant, having eight stamens, gained 
unable 
It owed its name to the French botanist Labillardiere, who, it 
is to be inferred, did not possess very accurate powers of observation. 
nurserymen 
different 
inapplicable. 
The accompanying drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society a month since, 
and is thus noticed in the Society's Journal. 
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Mr. Ronald Gunn 
all these supposed forms really 
species, we must confess that the tetrandrous Boronia is as variable a plant as we know of. We 
would recommend Nurserymen and others corresponding with Van Dieinan's Land, to procure 
seeds of as many of the forms as possible, for some of them seem much better adapted to cultivation 
than even this. 
ruishe 
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