BORONIA SERRULATA. ROSE-COLOURED BORONIA. 
Class VIII. OCTANDRIA. Order I. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, R U T A C E ^E. T HE RUE TRIBE. 
1. Calyx spread open. 2. The eight Stamens, every other one shortest, with smaller anthers. 3. One of the Stamens, detached, the 
filaments bearded at the base, and terminated in a tufted head beyond the anther. 4. Ovarium, terminated by a short 
4-furrowed Style, and a large 4-lobed capitate Stigma. 
A dwarf bushy evergreen Shrub: branches smooth, rugged where the leaves have fallen, erect or slightly 
spreading. Leaves distichous, trapeziform, or nearly elliptical, acute slightly twisted, attenuated to the base, 
smooth, but dotted with numerous small dots, glandularly serrulate on the margins. Petioles very short, 
setting close to the stem, reddish. Flowers terminal, crowded, from 4 to 12, of a bright rose colour, very 
fragrant. Bractes at the base of the peduncles, lanceolate, acute, of a membranaceous texture. Calyx 4- 
cleft, persistent, the lacinise lanceolate, acute, with membranaceous margins, spreading. Petals 4, ovate, 
acute, slightly mucronate at the points, about half an inch in length, persistent. Stamens 8, inserted in the 
receptacle, all bearing anthers, every other one longest, opposite to the sepal, and bearing the largest anther, 
which contains the greatest quantity of pollen, but the whole are fertile ; filaments glandularly hairy, erect, 
the points curved inwards, terminated in a broad tufted head beyond the anthers, which are two-lobed, 
and surround the style: pollen pale yellow. Ovarium 4-lobed, smooth and glossy. Style 1 , short, 4-fur- 
rowed, when full grown quite hid by the large 4-lobed capitate Stigma. 
The present beautiful plant is deserving a place in every collection, both for its beauty and the de- 
lightful fragrance of its flowers, which has obtained for it the name of the native Rose in New South Wales ; 
it may certainly be considered as one of the most ornamental plants of the Greenhouse, thriving well in a 
light turfy peat soil, and the pots to be well drained with potsherds broken small, that the wet may pass off 
readily ; but it is rather more tender than some of the plants from New South Wales, requiring the pro- 
tection of a good Greenhouse in Winter. Young cuttings of it, planted in sand, under bell-glasses, in 
Summer, placed in a warm but shady situation, and to be kept regularly moist, will be rooted by the fol- 
lowing Spring, when they must be potted singly into small pots, and all the sand must be shook clean from 
their roots that they might not canke^ ; they should then be placed in a close frame for a few days, until they 
have made fresh roots, and must be shaded from the sun, when they must be hardened to the air by degrees; 
evening is the best time for giving air at first, as if given in the day time, when the sun shines, they will be 
liable to wither with the heat. 
The genus was named by Sir J. E. Smith, in memory of Francis BorOne, a native of Milan, who un- 
fortunately died at an early age, by an accidental fall at Athens, while attending Professor Sibthorp on a 
botanical tour to that country.* 
A popular author says, “May we exhort such of our readers as have no pictures hanging in their room 
to put one up immediately? we mean in their principal sitting-room; — in all their rooms, if possible, but, at 
all events, in that one. No matter how costly, or the reverse, provided they see something in it, and it 
gives them a profitable or pleasant thought. Some may allege that they have “no taste for pictures ;” 
but they have a taste for objects to be found in pictures, — for trees, for landscapes, for human beauty, for 
scenes of life; or, if not for all these, yet surely for some one of them; and it is highly useful for the 
human mind to give itself helps towards taking an interest in things apart from its immediate cares or 
desires. They serve to refresh us for their better conquest or endurance ; to render sorrow unselfish ; 
to remind us that we ourselves, or our own personal wishes, are not the only objects in the world; to 
instruct and elevate us, and put us in a fairer way of realizing the good opinions which we would all fain 
entertain of ourselves, and in some measure do ; to make us compare notes with other individuals, and 
with nature at large, and correct our infirmities at their mirror by modesty and reflection; in short, 
even the admiration of a picture is a kind of additional tie on our consciences, and rebinding of us to the 
greatness and goodness of nature. 
Mr. Hazlitt has said somewhere, of the portrait of a beautiful female with a noble countenance, that it 
^geems as if an unhandsome action would be impossible in its presence. It is not so much for restraint’s 
sake, as for the sake of diffusiveness of heart, or the going out of ourselves, that we would recommend pic- 
tures; but, among other advantages, this also, of reminding us of our duties, would doubtless be one; and 
Flora Australasica. 
