Drummondiane. N. O. Malvacee. 
TAB, CDXVII. 
LAWRENCIA GLOMERATA. 7. Sp. ~ 
Ramosissima, foliis spathulatis petiolatis superioribus sessilibus, 
stipulis ovatis acutis adnatis, floribus 2-3 glomeratis axillari- 
bus, calyce plicato, carpellis reticulatim venosis. 
Has. Swan River Colony, Australia. Mr. James Drummond. 
At Tab. CCLXI. of vol. 3 of this work, I established the 
genus Lawrencia, upon a very remarkable plant found on the 
northern coast of Van Diemen’s Land and the opposite southern 
extremity of Australia, Lawrencia spicata. The present Swan 
River plant is undoubtedly a second species of the same 
us. 
The lower part of the stem seems to be woody, the rest her- 
baceous, much branched. Leaves with persistent adnate sti- 
pules, which are large and very distinct in the upper floral. 
leaves. The flowers are axillary, glomerate; the calyx singu- 
larly plicate in the sinuses, the lobes very acute, erect. Petals 
acute, combined by their claws with the base of the staminal 
tube. The styles are 5. Carpels 5, adnate, the sides strongly 
reticulated. Different as the two species of Lawrencia are in 
habit from Sida, the structure of the flowers and fruit is nearer 
to that genus than I had imagined. 
Fig. 1. Flower and bracteas. f. 2. Corolla. J. 3. Stamens. f. 4. 
Immature carpels. /f. 5. Single ripe carpel. f. 6. The same laid 
open. f.7. Seed. f. 9. leaf:—all more or less magnified. 
