PLATE LVIII. 



BORONIA P1NNATA. 

 Hawthorn-fcenied Boronia. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 

 OCTJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium quadripartitum; laciniis 



acutis, perfiftentibus. 

 Corolla. Petala quatuor, ovata, feililia. 



Neflarium corona; forma, excavatum, glan- 

 dulofum. 

 Stamina. Filamenta ofto, plana, ciliata, incur- 

 vata, receptaculo inferta. Antlierae infra 

 apicem filamentorum pedicillatae, incum- 

 bentes. 



Pistillum. Germcn fuperum, conicum, qua- 

 drifulcatum. Stylus breviffimus, fimplex. 

 Stigma capitatum, glabrum, fulcatum. 



Pericakpium. Capfulse quatuor, ovato-acumi- 

 natae,compreffa:,margine introrfum coalita;, 

 apicibus diftantibus, futra fuperiori dehi- 

 fcentes, bivalves. 



Semina lblitaria faepius, nitida, reniformia, aril- 

 lata. 



SPECIFIC 

 Boronia foliis impari-primatis, integerrimis; pe- 

 dunculis axillaribus, dichotomis; filamentis 

 apice obtulis, glandulofis. 



Emfalement. Cup with four divifibns; fcg. 

 rncnts fharp pointed, and remaining. 



Blossom. Petals four, egg-fhaped, fitting clofc 

 to the cup. 



Honey-cup of the fliape of a crown, hol- 

 lowed, and glandular. 



Chives. Eight threads, fiat, 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 

 them. 



Tointal. Seed-bud above, conical, and four- 

 furrowed. Shaft very fhort, and fimple. 

 Summit headed, fmooth, and furrowed. 



Seed-vessel. Capfules four, of a pointed egg- 

 fliape, flattened, joined by the interior edge, 

 the points ftanding feparate, fplitting from 

 the upper future, two-valved. 



Seeds moftly folitarv, fhining, kidney -fliaped, 

 and covered with an elaftic coat. 

 CHARACTER. 



Boronia with leaves abruptly winged, entire; 

 flower-ftalks growing from the bale of the 

 leaves, forked; end of the threads blunt, 

 and glandular. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement, (natural fize). 



2. The Chives, and Pointal. 



3. One Chive, (magnified). 



4. The Pointal, and Honey-cup, (natural fize). 



This is the only fpecies yet in our gardens, of a moft beautiful new genus of plants, natives of New 

 South Wales, firft named, delcribed, and with three other fpecies, figured in the Tracts relating to 

 Natural Hi/lory by Dr. J. E. Smit/t, F. K. S. P. L. S. &c. Thus eternizing the name of an efteemed 

 and faithful tenant, who by his ardour in botanical purfuits, had merited the honour; rejecting the 

 ufual confederations, riches, or learning, does the Dr. no lefs credit as a man, for the kindnefs of 

 his heart, than what his diftinguifhed talents have gained him, by placing him in the firfl botanical 

 feat in this kingdom. In the fhort hiftory of the unfortunate end of Borone, the Dr. informs us, 

 he had refigned him to Dr. Sibthorpe, as a moft fit perfon 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 much of the aromatic flavour of Diofma in its leaves and ftem; the 

 flowers, which appear about February, and continue till May, have the font of the Hawthorn flower; 

 it grows to a fhrub of the height of eighteen inches, is propagated with difficulty by cuttings, and 

 has not hitherto perfefted its feeds in this country; requiring a dry fituation in the grcenhoufe, and 

 flouri flies molt in light fandy peat. The figure was taken from a plant which flowered laft year, in 

 the nurfery of Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, where it was railed from feeds in 1/94. 



