OF LA PEROUSE. 1J I 



tiiofe plants ; like them the leaves are lanceolate, 

 forming a fheath on the tide towards their bafe. 



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Explanation of the Figures, Plate XV. 



Fig. i. The plant of the natural fize. 



Fig. 2. Flowers expofed to full view, the 

 fpathe having been removed. A blown flower is 

 feen, the three exterior petals of which have 

 been detached. 



Fig. 3. Exterior petal feen internally. 



Fig. 4. The fame feen externally. 



Fig. 5. Interior petals expanded, in order to 

 {hew the ftamina and the ityle. 



Fig. 6. Stamen magnified. 



Fig. 7. Style with its fligma. 



Fig. 8. Part ofthegermen, the flam i.na and the 

 ftyle being removed, in order to fhew the rudi- 

 ment of the filament found in the place of a third 

 ftamen. 



Fig. 9. Inferior part of the capfule cut tranf- 

 verfely, that the three cells may be feen. 



Fig. 10. Superior part of the capfule cut ver- 

 tically, in order to fhew the feeds. 



J was croffing a fmall copfe when a large kan- 

 garoo quitted his burrow, at the moment that 

 I was very near it : at firit he followed for a fpace 

 of upwards of thirty yard>s one of the little paths 

 which thefe quadrupeds make through the 



bufhes ; 



