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BOSSIAZA cinerea. 
Sharp-leaved Bossica. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 
Nat. ord. Lrcuminos®. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. Ve 
BOSSIZA. Cal. bilabiatus: labio superiore majore semibifido obtuso, 
Stam. omnia connexa. Legumen plano-compressum, pedicellatum, poly- 
spermum, miargine utroque incrassatum., Sem. strophiolata. Brown in 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 266. 
B. cinerea, ramis foliosis teretibus, caule erecto ramosissimo, foliis ovato», 
Janceolatis; supra scabris; subtis pubescentibus; marginibus recurvis. 
Brown in loc. cit. 268. 
Bossiza calcarata. Herb. Banks: 
Fruticulus erectus, strictus, paniculato-ramosus, ramis subalternis, sims 
plicibus, lanato-villosis. Fol. numerosa, proxima, alterna v. nunc in summis 
ramis opposita, patentissima, brevissimé petiolata, semuncialia v. ultra, longé 
acuminata mucrone spiniformi, margine deflexo denticulato-scabrata, supra 
corrugato-venosa, mibescontia parca et caducd, subtis villoso-cinerascentia 
nervis varicosis: petiolus glanduloso-crassus, rugosus, stipulatus: stipule 2, 
opposite, membranose, purpuro-rubentes, lineari-elongate, acute, angustis- 
sim@, recurvo-divaricantes. Flores numerost, solitarii, axillares, subequales 
foliis, in ramis formantes racemos foliosos spicatim elongatos ; pedunculi fili- 
formes, atro-rubentes, villosiusculi, breviores flore, bracteolis 2 minutis palli- 
dis oppositis Pine calycem cum quo sunt continut. Cal. turbinato-campanu- 
latus, 5-fidus, limbo inequalissimé bilabiato; \abio summo apttaitia. 
valdé majore, subtruncato-rotundo, emarginato; imo 8-partito, lobulis subula- 
tis equalibus collateralibus recurvis. Cor. + partem uncie pauld exsuperans, 
purpuro-flavescens, duplo longior calyce; pro describendé verd non habuimus 
preter emarcidam. 
A very rare species in our collections, and till now un- 
figured; first observed by Mr. Brown in Van Diemen’s 
Island, and introduced in 1803. The drawing was made 
from a specimen which flowered in Mr. Herbert’s garden at 
Spofforth, near Wetherby, a source from which we have been 
liberally and munificently supplied for the use of the present 
publication. It is cultivated in the greenhouse, and flowers 
from May to July. 
A small bushy shrub; stem upright, straight, nume- 
rously branched; branches subalternate, round, leafy, 
simple, with a short woolly fur. Leaves numerous, near to 
each other, alternate or sometimes opposite at the upper 
part of the branches, widespread, ovately lanceolate, about. 
