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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



16. Boron i A spathueata, Lindley, Swan River Botany, 

 p. 17. 



Received from Mr. J. G. Henderson under the name of 

 B. mollina. 



An erect greenhouse shrub, of little beauty, with compressed 

 branches, which are rather rough when young. The leaves are 

 of a dull olive-green colour, simple, veinless, smooth, short and 

 roundish obovate on the early branches, becoming narrower and 

 spathulate on the later. Flowers pink, small, in small terminal 

 cymes, inconspicuous ; their stalks are defended by coarse glands. 

 All the plant has a heavy, unpleasant odour, resembling Rue. 



Even in its native country, after having been burnt down, and 

 reduced in stature to 9 inches or a foot, this can be a plant of 

 very small interest. When extended by cultivation into long 

 straggling branches sparingly covered with leaves, it is quite 

 destitute of interest for gardens, and must be regarded as the 

 worst of the Boronias. 



March 18, 1850. 



17. Boronia tetrandra. Labillardiere, Nov. Holland, i. 

 p. 98, t. 125. 



Received from Mr. J. G. Henderson under the name of 

 B. microphylla. 



This little shrub is not unlike a dwarf Boronia pinnata ; but it 

 has a less number of leaflets, and seldom produces more than 1 

 flower at a time in each axil. These are pale pink, rather large, 

 and very pretty. The leaflets are usually 7, but occur to the 

 number of 5, or even 9 ; they are narrow, blunt, and smell rather 

 agreeably. The whole plant is destitute of down or hairs. 



The name of B. microphylla, erroneously applied to this 

 plant in gardens, really belongs to a totally different plant. 

 According to Dr. Hooker's views of the variations to which B. 

 tetrandra is subject, this clearly belongs to that species ; but it 

 must be confessed that it is materially different from the form to 

 which its discoverer gave the name. 



March 18, 1850. 



18. Ceanotiius papillosus. Torrey and Gray. Flora of 

 North America, vol. i. p. 268. Hooker, Icones Plant arum, 

 t. 272. 



Raised from Californian seeds sent home by the collector 

 Hartweg. 



An evergreen bush, covered with coarse hair and resinous 

 tubercles, in a wild state forming a compact mass of branches, in • 



