rium smooth. Style smooth, a little longer than the stamens. 
Stigma a simple point. 
This beautiful species is one of the most variable plants in 
the genus, scarcely any two of them raised from seeds being 
alike. Mr. Loddiges has figured the short broad-leaved one, 
as a different species, under the name of A. brevifolia, but 
this is the most common state of the species, and we have fre- 
quently raised that and his A. /unata out of the same pod of 
seed, besides others, intermediate between the two, and of va- 
rious other shapes; the size of the heads of flowers also vary 
considerably on the different plants. We have examined nu- 
merous fine native specimens of this species in Mr, Lambert’s 
Herbarium, some of which were received from Sieber, so that 
we are certain of our plant being the A. dunata of Decandolle. 
In the native specimens we observe the same variation as in 
the cultivated plants. 
Our drawing was made last Spring from a fine plant in the 
select collection of the Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater; the 
plant was intermediate between the two extreme states of the 
species, three or four other plants of it were in flower at the 
same time, and all of them differed either in leaf or flower: it 
is a native of Van Diemen’s Island, and from seeds received 
from thence, we have frequently raised it, so that it must be 
pretty hardy, and will most likely succeed well by the side of 
a wall on a warm border, to be protected with a mat in severe 
frosty weather ; there is not a more beautiful species in this 
numerous division of the genus, and nothing can appear more 
lovely than it is, when loaded with its bright yellow, almond- 
scented flowers ; a mixture of sandy loam and peat suits it very 
well ; and young cuttings, planted in pots of sand, under bell- 
glasses, will strike root ; it also produces seeds occasionally. 
CF OL OLDS OF OS OL OL 
1. Calyx, 2, The 5 Petals and Stamens. 3. Ovarium terminated by the long 
slender Style and simple Stigma, 
