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BORONIA alata. 
Winged-leaved Boronia. 
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Linnean Class and Order. OCTANDRIA (raro TETRANDIA) MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. RUTACEAE. DC. prodr. 1. p. 709. 
Tribus I. Drosme®. Petala 3-5 a basi libera, equalia et corollam regularem 
coustituentia. Semina albuminosa, 
BORONIA. Supra fol. 19. 
a EEE ERS 
B. alata, foliis impari-pinnatis 3-5-jugis ; rachi nervisque subtus pilosis: foliolis ellipti- 
cis crenatis margine revolutis, pedunculis dichotomis subtrifloris, bracteis fimbri- 
atis. 
Boronia alata. Smith Linn. trans. 8. p. 283. DC. prodr.1. p.721. Spreng. syst. 2. 
p. 215. Swt. hort. brit. add. p. 471. 

A handsome strong-growing upright evergreen Shrub, or 
small Tree, much branched: branches opposite, crossing each 
other, or decussate, quadrangular, smooth, or hairy when young, 
glossy, and more or less tinged with purple. Leaves scented like 
ripe fruit, opposite, pinnate, and terminated by an odd leaflet, the 
rachis winged: leaflets three to five pair, sessile, the lower pair 
petiolate and ternate on the largest leaves, elliptic or elliptically 
lanceolate, scarcely acute, slightly notched at the margins, which 
are a little revolute, thickly covered with small glandular dots, 
which occasions a roughness, of a dark glossy green, and smooth 
on the upper side and paler underneath; the rachis and nerves 
of the leaflets more or less hairy, also the young part of the 
branches. Petioles winged, furrowed on the upper side, more 
or less hairy. Flowers red, tipped with green. Peduneles in 
the axils of the leaves, forked, more or less tinged with purple. 
Bractes at the base of the pedicles small, succulent, blunt, 
broadest at the base, more or less fimbriate. Pedicles slender, 
purplish, thickening a little towards the calyx. Calya 4-cleft, 
persistent, the segments short, spreading, rather succulent, 
broadish at the base, tapering to a blunt subulate point. Corolla 
of four petals, also persistent. Petals broadly lanceolate, taper- 
