crowded as in most other species. Involucre closely imbricate, 
clothed with a dense short tomentum ; the outer bractes ovate, 
acute, fringed with the same sort of wool; inner ones linear, 
some bluntish, others acute, and bearded with purplish brown 
hairs, particularly at the margins. Perianthium deeply 4-part- 
ed, clothed with a dense ferruginous tomentum, and some long 
slender hairs intermixed, bearded towards the base: lamina very 
long, linear, about the length of or a little longer than the un- 
guis, concave inwards, and bearded at the point with a tuft of 
loose woolly hairs. Stamens 4, inserted in the hollow base of 
the lamina; anthers linear, nearly the length of the lamina, 
bursting longitudinally to discharge the pollen. Style smooth, 
slightly angular, thickened towards the base. Sézgma a simple 
point. Follicle smooth, much veined. 
The present elegant plant is another of those that has been 
raised at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay at Clapton, where our 
drawing was made the beginning of September last; the seeds 
were also collected and sent home by Mr. W. Baxter, Mr. 
Henchman’s indefatigable collector, who procured them on the 
south coast of New Holland, where he obtained a rich harvest 
of new and rare plants, the greater part of which are now grow- 
ing at Mr. Mackay’s Nursery, where some other species of this 
curious genus are showing for bloom: the present is a dwarf 
species, but makes a neat compact bush, and will, without 
doubt, be a very free bloomer, and a very desirable plant 
for the Greenhouse, several of Mr. Mackay’s plants being 
now in bud for bloom. It requires precisely the same treat- 
ment as D. longifolia, at fig. 3, of our first Number. Ripened 
cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, in pots of sand, will strike 
root readily. 
PL PP PL EL OL LE LL OP 
1. One of the outer Bractes. 2, One of the inner ones bearded at the back and 
margins. 3. Perianthinm spread open, showing the four segments, the lamina very 
long, with the long linear Anther inserted in each. 4, Style, terminated by a simple 
Stigma, 5, The smooth veined Follicle. 
