discovered by Robert Brown: a few other species are found on the 
south-west of the Australian territory, but the greater number belong 
to the east coast; one only has been found in Van Dieman’s Land. 
All the species yet known have yellow flowers. Thus the peculiar 
type of vegetation which these plants present, has its locality assigned 
to it, and observes limits in its geographical distribution, with as un- 
varying uniformity, as their flowers assume the hue which characterizes 
them. Other remarkable points may be noted in the genus; particularly 
the disposition of the branches to become flat, and thereby resemble 
leaves, the office of which they frequently discharge; the leaves them- 
selves being often wanting, as happens in the species Bossizea Scolo- 
pendra, Bossiza rufa, and others. In this respect they resemble certain 
speceis of Phyllanthus. They thus serve to diversify the aspect of ihe 
foliage and landscape scenery, in a country where an unusual degree of 
monotony in the appearance of the woods is everywhere observable. 
InrropucTion; WHERE GROWN; Couture. It was first introduced 
to British cultivators in 1803. Our drawing was made in the month 
of June from a fine plant grown in the Birmingham Botanic Gar- 
den. It does not require more protection than the conservatory affords, 
in which it freely unfolds its lively blossoms in May and June. The 
following notice respecting its culture occurs in the Botanical Cabinet, 
of the Messrs. Loddiges, from which we take the liberty of extracting 
it. “It is not easily increased, except by seeds. A light loam with a 
little peat mixed, is the proper soil for it. It is not particularly ten- 
der, and only requires the common greenhouse protection, with a mod- 
erate quantity of water. Planted out in the conservatory it grows far 
more luxuriantly, and flowers much better than when confined in a 
pot.” 
DERIVATION OF THE NaMEs. 
Bossa, so called after M. Bossieu Lamartiniere, one of the companions of 
La Perouse. Linopnyiza, from \wwoy Linon, flax; and ¢vAAov PHuLton, a leaf, 
the leaves resembling those of the common flax. 
SyNONYMEs. 
Bosst#as trnopayria. R. Brown: Hortus Kewensis, Ed. 2, Vol. IV, p. 266. 
Sims: Botanical Magazine, t. 20: Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, t. 174. De- 
dolle: Prodromous, II, p. 117. 
