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BORONIA CRENULATA. 
(cRENULATK-LEAVED BOllONIA.) 
CLASS. ORDEIl. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
RUTACE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx four-parted, or four-cleft, permanent. Petals four, marcescent. Stamens 
eight, the four opposite the petals shortest, all shorter than the petals, free, fringed, or tubercuhited, 
linear, usually dilated at the top, whence a very short thread arises, hearing the anther. Anthers 
heart-shaped, usually with a short appendage at the apex. Styles four, erect, smooth, approximate or 
joined together, terminated by an equal or capitate four-furrowed stigma. Fruit four two-valved 
carpels. Seeds ovate, compressed, usually one in each carpel. — Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant shrubby, growing from eighteen inches to two feet high (it is however pro- 
bable that it will ultimately attain as much as three feet in height). Leaves of an obovate figure, 
crenulate, and mucronate. Peduncles axillary, terminal, one-flowered. Flowers small pinkish, 
deepening towards the margin. Calyx fringed. Filaments densely fringed, obtuse, and glandular. 
Anthers nearly terminal. 
The species of Boronia already known in our collections have always been great 
favourites, and justly the admiration of every lover of beautiful plants ; it is grati- 
fying- indeed to be enabled to add another with nearly equal claims and merits. 
We were for some time unable to assign with certainty a name to this beautiful 
plant when we first saw it in flower, but having shortly after met with the following 
account from the pen of Sir J. E. Smith, in the Linnaean Society's Transactions, 
vol. viii. p. 284, we feel satisfied that the name crenulata is correct, as is evident 
from what follows. 
" This plant was gathered at King George's Sound, by Mr. Menzies, and at 
first sight it appears only a variety of B. serrulata, but on examination of the 
flowers sufficient marks of distinction are to be found. Even the leaves diff'er essen- 
tially in being obovate, obtuse with a small point, and crenulated, not serrulated^ 
about the extremity ; " added to this, the filaments are'densely fringed, obtuse (by 
no means inversely heart-shaped, which is so remarkable in B. serrulata) see fig. 
vol. i. t. 173, glandular, scarcely at all bristly, bent and swelling below the top. 
