


OF ORNAMENTAL EXOTIC PLANTS, 143 
OTHER SPECIES OF VERTICORDIA. 
VERTICORDIA INSIGNIS Zndl. Appendix to the Bot, Reg., t. 2. See our fig. 1, in Pl. 29. 
One of the commonest and prettiest species in the genus, and a most abundant flowerer. The leaves are 
crowded together towards the end of the branches, but they are spreading on the old wood. The flowers are very 
pretty, and quite account for their English name of Fringe Myrtle by the delicate fringe with which the segments 
of the calyx are bordered. 
GENUS III. 
HYPOCALYMMA Endl. THE PEACH MYRTLE. 
Lin, Syst. TCOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Cuaracter.—Flowers axillary, capitate. Tube of the | to thirty, inserted with the petals, but much longer; filaments thread- 
calyx campanulate, connate with the ovarium; upper lip five-parted. | shaped, subulate; anthers two-celled, opening longitudinally. Ova- 
Petals five, inserted in the mouth of the calyx, and alternating with | rium inferior, two-celled, each cell containing many ovules. Style | 
the segments, slightly unguiculate, orbicular. Stamens from twenty | filiform; stigma capitate or simple. 

Description, &c.—This is a genus of Australian plants which, though belonging to the order Myrtacez, have 
pink flowers, and strongly resemble bushes of the dwarf Peach or Almond. The name of Hypocalymma signifies 
under a veil, in allusion to the bracts which veil the calyx from below. 

~ 1—HYPOCALYMMA ROBUSTUM Fndl. THE LARGER PEACH MYRTLE. 
Enecravinc.—Bot, Reg. for 1843, t. 8. 
Sprciric Cuaracter.—Leaves linear-lanceolate, mucronate. Flowers axillary, on very short pedicels. Heads generally many-flowered. 
Description, &c.—< This,” Dr. Lindley observes, “is one of those beautiful little Myrtaceous plants peculiar 
to the south-west of New Holland, which might be easily mistaken for small Almond or Peach bushes, so much are 
the flowers like them, and so seldom do we find bright rosy blossoms among the Myrtles.” The species is a dwarf 
plant with clusters of small pink flowers, and linear leaves which smell like lemon. It is a native of the neigh 
bourhood of the Swan River, whence it was introduced in 1842. 

OTHER GENERA BELONGING TO TRIBE I. 
DARWINIA Rudge. 
A genus of Australian decumbent leafy shrubs, with red or white flowers disposed in terminal fascicles, and 
interspersed with chaffy leaves or bracteas. The genus is named in honour of the celebrated Dr. Darwin. 

CHAMALAUCIUM Dee. 
There is only one species in this genus, and it is a dwarf shrub with white flowers, a native of New Holland. 
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GENETYLLIS Dec. 
There is only one species in this genus, a Diosma-like plant with white flowers. 
PILEANTHUS Zabill. 
Another genus consisting of a single species, which is an Australian shrub with white flowers. The name of 
Pileanthus is derived from two Greek words, signifying a cap and a flower, in reference to the flower being 
inclosed within a one-leaved involucrum before expansion. 


