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quainted with 3, Willdenow has recorded-21, and 96 have 
been now discovered. Of these, 51 belong to Australasia, 
21 to the Kast Indies and neighbouring regions, 3 to the 
equatorial parts of Africa, 21 to the equatorial parts of 
America, but none are indigenous within the temperate 
latitudes of the northern hemisphere. 
_ The complement of Hiszerrra consists at present of 19 
species, all natives of New Holland. - The one before us has 
been introduced subsequently to the appearance of the last 
edition of the Hortus Kewensis; and has not been till now. 
represented by any published figure. The drawing was. 
made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. at Fulham, 
where it is cultivated in the greenhouse, and flowers usually 
about March. ' 
A suffrutescent plant, with a round sarmentose stem. 
Leaves petioled, subovately or elongatedly oblong, 2-3 
inches in length, acuminate, mucronate, roughly cili- 
ated, remotely indented, some of the teeth having an 
elongated mucroniform termination, shortly but roughly 
furred on the under side, the villi of the nap being crooked 
and set all one way, occasioning a burry feel when the hand 
is drawn against the grain. Peduncle at first terminal, 
axillary from the growth of the branch, one-flowered, soli- 
tary, hispid, shorter than the leaf; bractes small, ciliated, — 
linearly subulate, membranous. Calyx rotately expanded, 
as short again as the corolla, persistent, leaflets cordately 
elliptical, mucronate, slightly unequal, furred on the out- 
side, ciliate, as well as the peduncle and bractes of a red- 
dish green. Corolla reminding us of that of a single- 
flowered yellow Rose, about two inches in diameter, petals — 
“oblongly obcordate. Stainens twice shorter than the calyx, 
yellow, numerous, slightly connected at the base: anthers 
continuously terminal, compressedly oval, recurved, dis- 
charging the pollen by amarginal fissure. Germens 3, white, 
smooth, ovate, surmounted by a caudately continuous 
style equalling the stamens, and terminated by a simple 
stigmatose point. We have seen no specimen much above 
a foot high, nor with more than one flower on a stem. 
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a Calyx and stamens. 5 The three pistils, _, 
