Catyx nearly a line long, smooth, deeply four-cleft; the divisions 
ovate, pointed. Prrats spreading, more than twice as long as the 
calyx, white with a slight tinge of pink, oval-oblong, blunt. Stamens 
alternating with the petals, very short; anthers tipped with white, and 
when the flower expands, covered with the rich orange-coloured 
pollen. Ganps at the base of the stamina, crescent-shaped, purple. 
Poputar anp GreocraPHicaL Notice. The genus Zieria consists 
of about a dozen species, found in the south-eastern districts of 
Australia, from the neighbourhood of Port Jackson to Van Dieman’s 
Land. Though not so showy as some of their allies from the same 
country, the Boroniz, they are many of them elegant shrubs, and ; 
especially the species now figured, which has a graceful habit, and with 
flowers much more abundant in proportion to the foliage than the 
others. The genus is at once distinguished from most of the Austra- 
lian Diosmez, by the leaves being all, or most of them, trifoliolate ; 
and from Boronia, of which many species have compound leaves, by 
the total want of the second row of stamens, those Bid sy to the © 
‘petals. G. B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; Cuttoure. Ziera levigata, which 
grows to the height of three feet, was introduced into this country in 
the year 1822, but has been rarely met with in our own greenhouses 
till since young plants have been again propagated from New Holland 
seeds. Our drawing was made at the extensive nursery establishment 
of the Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting, in May last, where plants may be 
obtained. As may readily be conceived from our figure of this species 
it forms a pretty ornament, from its very numerous delicate flowers. 
It should be potted in a mixture of sandy loam and peat, and requires 
to beykept under glass at all times. It is less easy of increase than 
most other similar plants; cuttings will, however, root slowly in sand, | 
under a bell glass, with a little bottom heat. 
RIVATION OF THE Nam 
Zrerra, named by Sir James Smith, in honour ats a bitte of the name of 
Zier. Lavicata smooth. 
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ZieERIA L&vicaTa, Smith: in Rees’s Cyclopedia. De Candolle: Prodromus, 
