9-lobed, the lobes divided and spreading at the base. Ovarium 
sessile, densely clothed with long white woolly hairs. Style dark 
purple, very hairy, bent like a bow before the fertilization of the 
stigma, it then becomes loose and ascends, at last becoming 
nearly erect. Stigma crowning the style, facing backwards, de- 
pressed, but slightly convex in the centre, of a glossy green, en- 
closed in the hollow points of the perianthium before the anthers 
burst, which occasions its liberty. 
This pretty little plant is a native of the mountains in the vici- 
nity of Port Jackson, New South Wales, and has been intro- 
duced to our collections several years since; though it still re- 
mains rather scarce ; it forms a neat little bush, and its singular 
flowers are produced in abundance nearly all the year; it is 
nearly related to G. mucronulata, but is readily distinguished 
by its more glossy leaves, which terminate in a long taper-point, 
those of G. mucronulata being blunt with a short mucro. 
Our drawing was taken last Summer from plants at the Nursery 
of Mr. Joseph Knight, of the King’s-road, where it thrives well 
in a mixture of light sandy loam and peat, and is well worth a 
place in every collection. Ripened cuttings, planted in sand, under 
hand-glasses, in a cool situation, strike root readily ; it some- 
times, also, ripens its seeds. 
PLPL PIPL OL OL OL OP 
1, The two upper longest segments of the Perianthium. 2. The two lower 
shorter ditto. 3. The hairy Ovarium, terminated by the hairy purple Style ané 
broad Stigma. 
