[Plate 5.] 



BOROMA ELATIOR 



A Beautiful, Eh g ant Habited, Hard- Wooded Greenhouse Flowering Plant, from South-West 

 Australia, belonging to the Order Rutace^. 



Specific Character. 



' BORONIA ELATIOR.—" A slender twiggy erect shrub, four to five feet high, much "branched. Stem and branches more 

 or less clothed with long, soft, rather distinct . spreading hairs. Leaves close-set, uniform, and rather distichous on 

 the flowering branches, one to two inches long, by half to three-quarters of an inch broad, pinnate ; rachis 

 slightly dilated between the pinnae, which are two to six pairs, with an odd one between, sessile, linear acuminate, 

 flat, quite entire. Flowers very numerous on the branches, drooping, shortly peduncled. Sepals broadly ovate, 

 acuminate. Corolla reddish-purple, nearly globose. Petals nearly orbicular, apiculate, much imbricated. 

 Stamens and filaments very short, subulate ; those opposite the sepals with small yellow anthers, placed 

 under the stigma lobes, then alternate with large black anthers. Ovary pubescent, hid under the obtusely 

 pyramidal stigma, which is four lobed at the base." 



Botanical Magazine, 6285. 



IN this we "have one of the finest amongst a most beautiful genus of hard- wooded green- 

 house plants, equally remarkable for its elegant habit of growth and its disposition 

 to flower profusely. Like the other species in cultivation, it blooms in the spring, but 

 apparently is not so early in opening its flowers as some, for instance, B. pinnata, another fine 

 kind, to which the present subject affords a pleasing contrast. The flowers are produced at 

 the axils of the leaves, over the greater portion of the entire length of the preceding sum- 

 mer's shoots, forming pendent floral cords, to which its thin flexible shoots may be likened. 

 The flowers are of a reddish-purple hue, and their ability to endure long upon the plant 

 in a fresh condition is a matter deserving of being taken into account in all plants grown 

 for decorative purposes. Another attribute that this Boronia has, which commends it to 

 those with limited greenhouse accommodation, is that it blooms equally freely in a 

 small as in a large state: young examples -in six or eight inch pots bloom so as to 

 form perfect wreaths of flowers. This species is easily grown, but, like several of the best 

 amongst the other favourite kinds, there are a few essentials in its cultivation that require 

 attention to ensure the full measure of success, particulars of which will assist the in- 

 experienced. Boronias thrive best in peaty soil of a rich nature, not close, hard, and very 



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