filaments yellow, about a line long, inflexed and bordered with long 
hairs. ANTHERS small, two-celled, borne ona very short slender stipes 
at the top of the filament. Ovary of four carpels connected together 
and terminated in a very short style with a terminal stigma. One 
erect ovule in each earpel or cell of the ovary. CapsuLe smooth, of 
four carpels. Sreps solitary, black, with the adhering endocarpium 
white and polished. 
Porutar AND Grocrapuicat Notice. Boronia is an Australian 
genus, comprehending a considerable number of species, natives of 
different parts of the southern and western coasts, most of them of 
great beauty. Some of them, and especially the present species, have 
long contributed to the ornament of our greenhouses, and it were 
highly desirable that many others, known as yet only from dried spe- 
cimens, were introduced into cultivation, more especially those from 
Van Dieman’s Land, which in the South of England would probably 
prove half-hardy. . G.B. 
Iyrropuction; WHERE Grown; CuLTURE.. The Boronia pin- 
nata was first introduced in the year 1795, to the nursery of Messrs. 
Lee and Kennedy of Hammersmith, and has ever since remained in 
our greenhouses, but has not always been cultivated with the success 
which attends the generality of New Holland plants. The chief occa- 
sion of this, has been over watering; or exposure, in summer, with 
other greenhouse plants, to all the rain of the season. To avoid this 
it should be retained, at all times under glass, be sparingly watered, 
and have a soil composed of peat and sand, with a very small portion 
of loam, so loose and pervious as to prevent the possibility of water 
stagnating aboutits roots. Attention to these observations, with a good 
drainage, obtained by the use of a stratum, at least two inches thick 
of potsherds, or broken tile, will secure success to the cultivator, and 
yield him the gratification of possessing a lovely little shrub, as odor- 
iferous as beautiful. Cuttings require the same precautions in regard 
to moisture. 
DERIvaTION oF THE Names. 
Boronia, named by the late Sir James Edward Smith, in compliment to 
to Sierra Leone, and afterwards met with an untimely death by an acciden- 
tal fall at Athens, whither he had accompanied the late Dr. Sibthorp. Pry. 
NATA, pinnate, from the disposition of the leaves 
Synonymgs. 
Boronia PinnaTa. Smith: Natural History Tracts, p. 290, t. 4. Andrews’s 
Botanist’ de la Malmaison, t. 38. Bot- 
Y 8 itory, t. 58, Ventenat Jardin 
anical Magazine, t. 1763, 
