(keel) of two petals, slightly cohering near the apex, claw long, slen- 
der, limb broad, obtuse, brownish purple. Stamens forming a tube 
round the pistiJ. Ovary very slender. Sry.e subulate. 
Popunar aNp Groarapnicat Notice. New Holland is the na- 
tive land of this, as well as nearly all the species of Bossiwa. It 
differs, from the plant represented in plate 68, by belonging to the 
leafless section. The name which was given to this plant by Siebold 
in his collection of dried plants of New Holland is preferable to that 
which it bears at the head of this article. He termed it Bossiwa en- 
sata, or Sword branched Bossixa, which is highly characteristic of 
its appearance, and the adoption of which would prevent any confu- 
sion with the species Bossiza rufa of Robert Brown, which, however, 
very greatly resembles this plant, differing only in the keel being 
fringed, and the upper bracts being deciduous, and having the calyx 
smooth. is plant corresponds with the Bossiza rufa, of Loddiges’ 
Botanical Cabinet, plate 1119. 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE Grown; Cutture. It was first raised 
in Britain in 1825. The plant from which our representation was 
taken flowered in May, 1837, as one of the many ornaments of the 
superb Conservatory of Wm. Leaf Esq., Parkhill, Streatham, which 
has so often furnished subjects for our pages. It will prosper best if 
planted out in the border of the conservatory, in a mixture of light 
loam with a little peat. Young plants may be raised from cuttings, 
but seedlings will not only make the handsomest, but the most free 
growing shrubs. 
DERIvaTION oF THE NaMEs. 
Bosstza, from M. Bo: agg a Sys gees of La Perouse. Rvra, from the 
brownish colour of the flow 
SynonyMEs. 
Boss1#a roura, Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, 1119. 
Bosst#a ENnsata, Siebold: Pl. exsiccated, No.434. Sweet: Flora Australas- 
tea, 5, 1. eckadalte Prodromus, IT, p. 117, George Don: Dictionary of 
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