No. 271. 
BOSSIÆA HETEROPHYLLA. 
Class, Order. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Our present subject is a native of New 
South Wales, introduced about the year 
1792: it is a very conspicuous plant; the 
season of its blooming is in the autumn 
and beginning of winter. After the warm 
summer of 1818, it flowered with us in the 
greatest profusion, which it had not done 
for two or three years before, owing pro- 
bably to the cold seasons which we had 
experienced. Its height does not much 
exceed two feet, forming a handsome up- 
right shrub. It must be kept in winter in 
the greenhouse. The soil should be loam 
and peat. We have not hitherto been able 
to increase it in any way except by seeds, 
which have not yet been perfected in this 
country. 
- VOL. III. VA 
