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but obscure veins, excepting on the old leaves, which are faintly reticu- 

 lated, ovate or lanceolato-ovate, denticulato-serrulate, and terminated 

 by a long rigid bristle. Flowers axillary, solitary, white, nodding. Pe- 

 duncles pale green, nearly as long as the leaves, sprinkled with reddish 

 pubescence, and having several scattered adpressed ovate bractese on 

 their lower half. Calyx naked, white, 5-parted ; segments acute. Co- 

 rolla white, canipanulate, similar in general appearance to the flowers ot 

 Convallaria majalis, but smaller, somewhat transparent between the calyx 

 segments, 5-toothed, segments reflected. Stamens 10; filaments cordato- 

 ovate, white, and under a moderately powerful lens appearing rough ; 

 anthers attached by their backs to the apex of the filaments, erect, 

 brown, attenuated at their apices, where they open by two pores; bristles 

 very short, erect. Pistil included ; stigma of five erect points ; style 

 nearly half the length of the whole pistil, erect, cylindrical, pale yellow- 

 ish-green ; germen equal to the length of the stamens, round, smooth, 

 green. 

 We received a seedling plant of this species from Mr Mackay in 1828. 

 It flowered in May last for the first time. It is stated by Forster to 

 be a native of the Straits of Magellan. Mr Mackay's seeds were received 

 from Mr Anderson, the indefatigable and most successful collector sent 

 to the southern parts of the continent of America by the establishment 

 at Clapton ; but I do not know the exact station where it was found by 

 him. 



Chorizema Baxteii. 



C- Ba^rferi ; foliis omnibus integerrimis, lanceolatis, superne farinosis, 



subtus adpresse villosis ; floribus terminalibus, verticillato capitatis. 

 INIirbelia Baxteri, Hort. 



Desciiiption. — Stems very numerous, much branched, diffused, slender, 

 twiggy, round, covered with adpressed hairs. Leaves (1 j-2 inches long, 

 4-| of an inch broad) lanceolate or elliptico-lanceolate, somewhat fari- 

 rfose in front, covered with adpressed hairs behind. Stipules subulate. 

 Peduncles (^ an inch to 1 inch long) terminal. Flowers capitate, or in 

 two somewhat irregular verticels at the top of the peduncle, or some- 

 times drawn out into a secund raceme. Bractea small, subulate, single 

 at the base of each pedicel, and two opposite, at the apex of each ; the 

 terminal pedicel has also generally a pair of opposite bractese about the 

 middle, from which point the peduncle is often prolonged, when the in- 

 florescence becomes verticillate, or a raceme. Calyx, like the peduncle 

 and pedicels, covered with adpressed hairs, bilabiate, upper lip 2-toothed, 

 lower 3-parted, teeth of the upper lip ovate, acute, reflected at their apices, 

 and slightly diverging, segments of the lower ovate, acute, spreading at 

 right angles to the tube and to each other. Corolla orange-yellow, be- 

 coming paler as it expands ; vexillum reniform, emarginate, spreading 

 wide, reflected, slightly concave behind, in front near the throat having 

 a radiated deep red-orange horse-shoe shaped mark, claw clavato-Iinear, 

 shorter than the calyx ; aloe shorter than the vexillum, obliquely obovate, 

 claws linear ; carina ventricose, of two petals, distinct at the claws and 

 apices, but sl'ghtly connected in the middle, each petal similar to the alae, 

 but rather smaller, and with rather a longer linear claw. Stamens 10, 

 free, included ; anthers incumbent, purple. Pistil equal in length to the 

 stamens ; stigma minute, terminal ; style subulate, hooked, smooth ; ger- 

 men substipitate, oblong, densely covered with silky hairs. 



We raised this plant at the Botanic Garden from New Holland seed, com- 

 municated as a species of Mirbelia by the Rev. David Landsborough of 

 Stevenston. It is known in gardens under the name of M. Baxteri, and 

 is a very desirable addition io out greenhouse plants, flowering very 

 freely. 



