
78 THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
GENUS II. 
BORONIA Smith, THE BORONTA. 

Lin. Syst. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Cuaracter.—Calyx four-parted or four-cleft, permanent. | apex. Styles four, erect, smooth, approximate or joined together, ter- 
Petals four, marcescent. Stamens eight, the four opposite the petals | minated by an equal or capitate four-furrowed stigma, Fruit of four 
shortest, all shorter than the petals, free, fringed or tubercled, linear, | two-valved carpels. Seeds ovate, compressed, usually one in each 
usually dilated at the top, whence a very short thread rises, bearing the | carpel. (G. Don.) 
anther; anthers heart-shaped, usually with a short appendage at the 
Dexscription, &c.—The plants contained in this genus are all natives of Australia, and they require a green- 
house in this country. They are shrubs, generally from one to four feet high, with flowers of some shade of purple, 
and haying an agreeable fragrance. The genus is named in honour of Francis Borone, Dr. Sibthorp’s Italian 
servant, who assisted him in collecting specimens of most of the plants figured in the ‘‘ Flora Greeca,” and who lost 
his life at an early age, by an accidental fall at Athens. It is singular enough, that this young man, before he 
entered into the service of Dr. Sibthorp, had attended Professor Afzelius in a botanical expedition to Sierra Leone, 
and, from his indefatigable zeal and singular acuteness, he had made such rapid progress in the knowledge of 
plants, that had his life been spared a few years longer, there is no doubt he would have become a most excellent 
botanist. 
1.—BORONIA PINNATA Sinith, THE PINNATE-LEAVED BORONIA. 
Encravincs.—Bot. Rep., t. 58; Bot. Mag., t. 1763; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 473. z 
Specrric Cuaracter.—Leaflets two, three, four pairs, linear, acute, quite smooth. Peduncles dichotomous. Flowers octandrous. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c.—A very pretty little plant, with very slender leaves and pretty pink flowers, which some- 
times take somewhat of a purplish tinge. It is a native of Australia, near Port Jackson, and it was introduced in 
1794. The flowers smell like the Hawthorn. 
2.—BORONIA SERRULATA Smith. THE SAW-LEAVED BORONIA. 
Eneravincs.—Bot. Reg, t. 842; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 998; Sweet's | front, smooth, full of glandular dots. Peduncles aggregate, terminal. 
Flora Austriaca, t. 19 ; and our fig. 1, in Pl. 19. (G Don.) 
Speciric Cuaracrer.— Leaves trapeziform, acute, serrulated in 
Description, &c.—For many years the Boronia pinnata was the only species of the genus known in this 
country, and Boronia serrulata has not the honour of even being second, as, in fact, it was not sent to England till 
about 1820, when some of its seeds were received from the neighbourhood of Port Jackson, and raised in this 
country. It forms a densely leafy bush, with bright rose-coloured flowers, which have a fragrance somewhat like 
that of the rose. It is a free-growing plant, and in the ground of a conservatory will grow four or five feet high, but 
it is very inferior in beauty to B. pinnata, as it has neither the lightness nor the elegance of that very pretty plant. 
3.—BORONIA CRENULATA Smith. THE CRENATED BORONIA. 
Eneravines.—Bot. Mag., t. 3915; Bot. Reg., for 1838, t. 12; Pedicels axillary, terminal, one-flowered. Filaments obtuse, glan- - 
and our fig. 2, in Pl. 19, dular at the apex. (G. Don.) 
Sreciric Cuaracter.—Leayes obovate, mucronulate, crenulated. 
Description, &c.—-This species is a native of King George’s Sound, whence specimens were brought home by 
the late Mr. Menzies upwards of fifty years ago, though the living plant was not introduced till 1837. The flowers 





