BORONIA ANEMONiEFOLIA. 
(Anemone-leaved Boronia.) 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RUTACEiE. 
Gbneric Character.— Ca7?/Ji? four-parted or four-cleft, 
permanent.^. PetoZ* four, marcescent. Stamens eight, 
the four opposite the petals shortest, all shorter than 
the petals ; free, fringed, or tuberculated, linear ; 
usually dilated at the top, whence a very short thread 
arises, bearing 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 an evergreen shrub, 
growing two feet or more in height. Leaves with lung 
foot-stalks, usually trifid, though often with four leaflets 
in opposite pairs, and a terminal one ; leaflets oblong- 
lanceolate, generally entire, acute. Petioles channelled. 
Peduncles axillary, one or many flowered. Filaments 
blunt at the apex. Anthers spurred. 
Seeds of this pretty New Holland plant were imported by Messrs. Loddiges 
many years ago ; but though they germinated at once, the plants did not blossom 
till within the last two years, and we had our drawing made from the collection of 
these gentlemen in the month of May or June, 1841. 
It is a very peculiar species, as well in the form and tints of its leaves, as in the 
way in which the flowers are produced. The leaves are composed of three and 
sometimes five leaflets, and have a bolder and more prominent character than those 
of any other species ; they are likewise usually tinged with yellowish green or 
brown. The flowers, too, instead of being borne almost or quite at the extremities 
of the shoots, and standing out distinctly on the exterior of the plant, keep more on 
the lower part of the branches, and, having short peduncles, are more retiring. 
They are, however, very neat ; of a lively pink hue, and beautifully varied by the 
yellow stamens in the centre. The bush, moreover, branching liberally, and being 
tolerably compact, has a good appearance at all times, but especially while the 
flowers are unfolded. 
In its cultivation no unusual treatment is requisite. A light loamy earth, with 
a very trifling addition of heath-mould, will suit it ; and it should be potted as 
often as may be necessary into a pot only one size larger. Particular attention 
must be paid to potting ; for it is generally owing to a sourness or insufficiency of 
soil, or imperfect drainage, that plants of this character acquire a sickly aspect. 
