‘. -Petala elec, ovata, i 
Sramina. Filamenta o€to, plana, ciliata, incur- 
Th wala, receptaculo inferta. Anthere infra 
apicem filamentorum pedicillate, incum- 
_ Pistintum. Germen fuperum, conicum, qua- 
__ drifuleatum. Stylus breviflimus, fimplex. 
Stigma capitatum, glabram, fulcatum. 
 Pericarerum. Capfule quatuor, ovato-acumi- 
_ Nate, comprefl, margine introrfum coalite, 
apicibus diftantibus, futra fuperiori dehi- 
fcentes, bivalves. 
Semina folitaria fepius, nitida, reniformia, aril- 
lata. 
_ ae - SPECIFIC 
__ Boronia foliis i impari-primatis, integerrimis; pe- 
™ dunculis dichotomis; filamentis 
= obtufis, glandulofis. 
“ CLA ss VIL. 
OCTAN DRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. 
pi _ GENERIC CHARACTER. 
0 RDER .I.°. 
One Pointal. 
Emratement. Cup with four er feg- 
ments pointed, and remaining. 
Bossom. Petals four, egg-fhaped, Sain clofe 
to the cup. 
Honey-cup of the fhape of a crown, hol- 
lowed, and glandular. 
Cuives. Eight threads, flat, fringed, turned 
inwards, and fixed into the receptacle. Tips 
fixed below the ends on the infide of the 
threads, on fhort foot-ftalks, and lying on 
em 
Rereeath Seed-bud above, contical, and four- 
furrowed. Shaft very fhort, and fimple. 
Summit headed, fmooth, and furrowed. 
Segp-vesseL. Capfules four, of a pointed egg- 
thape, flattened, joined by the interior edge, 
the points ftanding feparate, {plitting from 
_ the upper future, two-valved. 
Szeps moftly folitary, fhining, kidney-fhaped, 
and covered with an elaftic coat. 
CHARACTER. 
| 
Boronia with leaves abruptly winged, entire; 
_ flower-ftalks growing from the bafe of the 
leaves, forked; end of the threads blunt, 
and gland 
~ Natural Hiftory by 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement, (natural fize). 
2. The Chives, and Pointal. ee 
. One Chive, (magnified). 
Pointal, and Honey cup, (natural fize). 
Tus i is the only fpecies yet in our gardens, of a moft beautiful new genus of plants, natives of New 
South Wales; firit named, defcribed, and with three other fpecies, figured in the Trads relating to 
by Dr. F. E. Smith, F.R.S. P.L.S. &c. 
and faithful fervant, who by his ardour in botanical purfuits, had merited the honour; rejecting the 
ufval.confiderations, riches, or learning, does the Dr. no lefs credit as a man, for the kindnefs of 
Thus eternizing the name of an efteemed 
s heart, than what his diftinguifhed talents have gained him, by placing him in the firft botanical 
“feat in this kingdom. In the thort hiftory of the unfortunate end’of Borone, the Dr. informs us, 
he had refigned him to Dr. Sibthorpe, as a moft fit perion to attend him in his laft journey through 
Greece; where, at Athens, he met his death, by an accidental fall from ; a balcony: the Dr. did not 
long furvive him. 
_ The Boronia pinnata has muth of the aromatic flavour of Diofma in its leaves and ftem; the 
flowers, which appear about February, and continue till May, have the fcent of the Hawthorn flower; 
it grows to a thrub of the height of eighteen inches, is propagated with difficulty by cuttings, and 
t hitherto perfeéted its feeds in this country; requiring a dry fituation in the greenhoufe, and 
‘ithes moft in light fandy peat. The figure was taken from a plant which flowered laft year, 9 
nurtery of Mefirs. Lee and ree Hammerfmith, where it was raifed from feeds in 1794- 
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