684 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL REGISTER. 



(cdbi vicV purpurei) axillares, solitarii, bibracteali, bracteis 

 membranaceis, carinatis,persistentibus, basico7inatis. Brown 

 MSS. 



C. glabra, icosandra ; foliis petiolatis stipulatis adultis 

 bracteisque glabris. Brown MSS. 



The generic character now offered is from the pen of 

 Mr. Brown, and has been framed with the accustomed skill 

 and foresight of that learned naturalist with a view to the 

 cluster of confining genera from the same regions, which 

 will be found near it in the concluding volume of his ' Pro- 

 dromusof the Flora of New Holland/ Achenium implying 

 an indehiscent originally one-seeded seed-vessel, while that 

 of the present genus, though eventually one-seeded, having 

 been found by Mr. Brown to originate in a germen with 

 two ovula, one of which proves constantly abortive, he has 

 thought it advisable to suggest Achenopsis as a more precise 

 denomination for this sort of seed-vessel. 



Glabra is the first of the genus that has presented itself 

 in our European gardens, and is native within the colony of 

 Port Jackson, where it was found by Mr. Brown, whose 

 herbarium contains likewise four more of its congeners, of 

 which that gentleman has favoured us with the following 

 account •. — Three, our plant being one, were observed by 

 him in the colony above mentioned, as well as in Van 

 Diemen's Island, and agree in having a petioled stipuled 

 foliage and icosandrous flowers ; a fourth he discovered on 

 the south-west coast of New Holland, this had likewise a 

 petioled stipuled foliage, but the flowers were decandrous ; 

 the fifth he observed on the north coast of the same conti- 

 nent (in the Bay of Carpentaria), in that the flowers were 

 icosandrous as in the three first-mentioned species, but it 

 differed from all the others in having a foliage without 

 cither petioles or stipules. Through these modifications 

 the* genus will be found to unite with its confining co-ordi- 

 nates at different points. Bot. Reg. 393 (1819). 



Melaleuca incana, foliis ternis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque 

 ramulisqueincano-pubescentibus, spicis ovalibus oblongisve. 

 Brown MSS. Bot, Beg. 410 (1819). 



