coloured. Ovarium smooth, conical. Style smooth, included in 
the tube. Stigma 2-lobed. 
Our drawing of this pretty little shrub was made in March last, 
at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay, at Clapton, from a plant that was 
presented to him by Mr. Aiton, from his Majesty’s Royal Botanic 
Garden at Kew, where it was introduced by his Majesty’s collector, 
Mr. Allan Cunningham, and is described by him, and a figure of 
it published, in the Appendix to Barron Field’s Geographical 
Memoirs of New South Wales, where he mentions it as ‘‘ A Shrub 
frequent upon Pine Hills in the interior, being a third and hitherto 
unpublished species of this interesting genus, originally discovered 
by me in 1817, and again seen in October, 1822.” 
The present plant is desirable on account of the fragrance of 
its flowers, which are also very pretty, and are produced in abun- 
dance in the Spring; it succeeds well in the Greenhouse, in a mix- 
ture of sandy loam and peat, and will probably survive the Winter 
in a warm border in the open ground, so as to be covered with 
amatin severe frost; young cuttings of it strike root readily,planted 
in pots, in a light sandy soil, and placed in a sheltered situation ; 
or if planted under a hand-glass, they will soon strike root, so that 
some air be given to it, to keep them from damping off. 
The generic name is derived from avOoc a flower, and xepxt¢ 
a radius, from the long segments of the flower spreading out like 
rays. 
PIPPL PP PP LL OL PP 
1. Leaf magnified, to show the stellated pubescence. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla, with the 
tube laid open, to show the striped inside, and the insertion of the Stamens, with their 
kidney-shaped anthers, 4, Ovarium, terminated by the Style and two-lobed Stigma. 
