slightly reflexed. Vew7llum very broad, rounded, with a slight 
notch in the summit, and a long slender unguis, yellow, with a 
reddish purple crescent near the base, that is divided through the 
middle by a purple mark : from the crescent run numerous faint 
lines to the margin in all directions. Ale or wings spathulate, 
eared above the base, the ears half the length of the slender un- 
guis, yellow, tinged with red. Keela little longer than the wings, 
notched at the point, obtuse, also eared at the base, with long 
slender unguis. Stamens 10, all connected at the bottom, witha 
slit on the upper side: filaments free above half their length, 
ascending, attached to the back of the anthers: pollen pale yel- 
low. Ovarium on a long footstalk, flat, falcate, smooth, purple. 
Style smooth, ascending. Stigma small, flat. 
Our drawing of this pretty plant was made in April last, at 
the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, 
where it was raised from seed sent to them from New South 
Wales, by Mr. Charles Frazer ; it is a very free flowering plant, 
and makes a handsome appearance when covered with bloom ; 
fine specimens of it are preserved in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, 
who received them from Sieber, so that we have ascertained it 
to be the plant of Decandolle ; whether his B. rotundifolia be 
really different or not, we cannot pretend to say at present, as 
the specimens vary so much in the form of their leaves, some 
of them agreeing very well with the description of both. 
It is a hardy Greenhouse plant, requiring only protection 
from frost, and would be a handsome plant for the front of a 
Conservatory. It succeeds well in an equal mixture of light 
turfy loam, peat, and sand; and young cuttings, planted under 
bell-glasses, and placed in a shady part of the Greenhouse, will 
strike root, 
__ The genus was named by Ventenat, after Bossieu-Lamarti- 
niére, a French Naturalist. 
SL PL DE OE OD OD OT 
1. Calyx, showing the bractes on the peduncle. 2. Vexillum, 3. The 2 wings, 
each eared on one side, 4, Keel spread open. 5, The 10 Stamens, all connected in a 
tube at the base, the tube laid open to show where the filaments branch from, 6. The 
faleate pod, terminated by the slender Style and small flat Stigma, 
