Tab. 6285. 
BOEONIA ELATIOR. 
Native of South Western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Rutace^e. — Tribe BoroniejE. 
Genus Boronia, Smith. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 291) 
Boronia (Heterandrse) elatior ; frutex elatus floribundus, ramis patentim pilosis, 
foliis pinnatis, pinnis 5-13 linearibus planis rigidiusculis glabris v. pilosis, 
raclii inter pinnas subdilatata, floribus axillaribus cernuis, pedunculis 
petiolum sequantibus 2-bracteolatis, sepalis ovatis acutis, corollse subglobosse 
fusco-rubrse petalis orbiculatis apiculatis imbricatis, filamentis brevibus 
subulatis ciliolatis, oppositipetalis incurvis antheris minutis flavis, alternis 
crassioribus antheris magnis atris sterilibus, ovario hirsute, stigmate maximo 
pyramidato obtuso basi 4-lobo. 
B. elatior, Bartl. in Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 170 ; Benth ; FI. Austral, vol. i. p. 816* 
B. semifertilis, Muell. Fragm. Phytol. Austral, vol. ii. p. 98. 
A near ally of the sweet-scented B. megastigma , tab. 6046, 
and like it belonging to a small group of the extensive genus 
with dimorphous anthers and enormously large stigmas, which 
is confined to Western Australia. Though a very distinct 
species it is a variable one, especially in the amount of pubes- 
cence, which is almost absent or so copious that the branches 
are almost hirsute with soft- spreading hairs. Its neat habit 
and abundance of red-brown flowers, which in well-grown species 
completely hide one side of the branch, render it well worthy of 
cultivation, as indeed are almost all the species of this genus. 
Nearly fifty species of Boronia are known, they inhabit heathy 
and rocky places in Australia, and with the various Epacridece 
and Tetrathecas , etc., form one of the most beautiful features 
of the scenery. About fifteen species have been raised and 
figured in England, but it would be difficult to find half of 
them now, so entirely has the cultivation of Australian plants 
been superseded by easier grown soft-wooded things. 
MARCH 1st, 1877. 
