clue to its indigenous origin. It is treated as a greenhouse 
plant, and is in flower for a considerable tiitie in succession. 
An upright shrub with a hardish wooded stem, covered 
with a light brown bark and branched; branches opposite 
or solitary, upright, patent, round, downy, sometimes red- 
dish. Leaves opposite, wideset, widespread, firm, hardish, 
oblongly or ovately lanceolate, 3 times broader than long 
or more, downy, minutely and ciliately serrate, far tapered, 
towards the petiole very shortly so, slightly roughened at 
the upper surface, larger ones about two inches long; 
petioles joined by the intervening stipules, often red, man 
times shorter than the blade: stipules double, subulate, 
pressed flatly to the stem. Peduncles terminal, solitary, 
scarcely twice the length of the petioles, 8- or sometimes 
many-flowered and once trichotomous, furnished with 
two subulate or sometimes foliaceous bractes; pedicles 
shorter than the calyx. Flowers nodding, turning’ from 
deep yellow to deep red, scarcely exceeding an inch in 
length, without scent, not unfrequently with one of each 
of their four component parts suppressed. Calyx short, . 
4-parted, slightly villous, spreading, continuous with the 
outer covering of the germen; leaflets lanceolately subu- 
late, separated by broad sinuses. Corolla trumpet-shaped, 
not pubescent, obtusely 4-cornered: tube very long, ta. 
pered downwards, smooth throughout the interior: Lim) 
many times shorter, 4-parted, widespread, seements ovately 
tapered, equal, firm, stiffish, recurved. Stamens altey- 
nate with the segments, even with the tube to which they 
are wholly adnate: anthers sessile at the orifice of the tube, 
brown, linearly oblong, upright, fronting inwards, fixed 
at the middle of their backs. Germen oblate, downy, ~ 
2-locular, 2-seeded? style capillary, shorter than the 
tube: stigmas 2, white, linearly lobeshaped, upright, sub- 
connivent, 
Oss. Lebeckia contaminata, v. 2. fol. 104, of this work, 
is certainly the species of the Banksian Herbarium and of the 
Hortus Kewensis; we are however convinced that it is not 
that of either Linnzus or Thunberg; but the Indigofera 
Jiifolia of the latter. We shall explain further in’ the 
Appendix to this volume. 
