than. the tube, but much shorter than the tubeof the corolla. Cor- 
— OLLA bell-shaped, smooth, yellow, slightly ribbed outside, the inside of 
the tube marked with from thirteen to fifteen longitudinal purple 
stripes; divisions of the limb linear, somewhat broader at the base, 
spreading, longer than the tube. STAMENS inserted in the base of 
the corolla, shorter than its tube, the filaments dilated at the base, 
the anthers nearly globular, the cells parallel, bursting by longitudinal 
slits; rudiment of the fifth stamen very minute. 
Porutar aNnp GeoGcrapnHicaL Notice. This, the original species, 
was discovered by Labillardiere, on the South West Coast of Australia, 
where Mr. Brown found also a second species, and two others have 
since been detected by Mr: Cunningham in the interior, from Port 
Jackson. The genus, thus confined to Australia, belongs to the same 
group as the South American genus, Salpiglossis, and which is as it 
were intermediate between Scrophulariacex and Solanacez; but as the 
stamens are always didynamous, and the estivation of the corolla in 
the young bud decidedly bilabiate, we have no hesitation in refer- 
ring it to Scrophulariacee, notwithstanding the slight curvature of the 
embryo, which probably induced Mr. Brown to class it amongst 
Solanacee. 
InTRopucTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTurE. The Anthocercis 
littorea, was first introduced into this country in the year 1803,"and 
has ever since remained in our greenhouses, where it grows freely, in 
a mixture of sand and peat, and may be readily increased by cuttings. 
theless a desirable plant, and the more particularly so in as much as it 
continues in blossom during the whole of the summer and autumn. 
Our drawing was made in the rich collection of Mrs. Lawrence of 
Drayton Green. 
DeERIvaTION OF THE NAMEs. 
Antuocerctis, from dy@o¢ a flower, — Repeee a ray, intended to signify the ra- 
diating flower ; although, according t 1 in composing 
these names, the words should have been transposed, and the ‘plant called 
Cercidanthus, Laos signifies growing on the sea coast. 
SyNONYMEs. 
ANTHOCERCIS LITTOREA. eran Basa Hollandiz Plantarum Speci- 
men, V. 2, p. 19, t. 158. Bot. Reg. t. 
