branchlets flowerbearing at the top. _ Leaves scattered, sub-— 
sessile, linearly subulate, underneath convexly keeled and 
roughly furred, above concave smooth and dotted, deep 
green, when bruised diffusing a strong. aromatic odour, 
lower ones spreading, upper ones close-pressed and imbri- 
cate: petioles whitish, very short, fixed to a small decur- 
rent tubercle. | Umbels terminal, convex, close; flowers 
numerous, small, rose-purple; pedicles capillary, furred, 
purple, twice longer than the flower, bracteless. Calyx 
twice shorter than the corolla; segments lanceolate, furred 
on the outside. Petals 5, standing upon the hypogynous 
basement, unguiculate, uprightly spreading; wnguis or nar- 
row part the length of the calyx, filiform: lamine or broad 
part oval, obtuse, the length of the unguis. Filaments 10, 
inserted at the level of the petals, alternately barren: 
barren ones 5, opposite to the petals and of the same colour, 
linear, obtuse, concave, furred.at the lower part, the length 
of the ungues of the petals: fertile ones subulate, whitish, 
of the length of the corolla: anthers upright, oval, obtuse, 
_ 4-furrowed, reddish. _Germen globular, with two glands on 
the summit, enchased in the glandular basement: style 
straight, filiform, of the colour of the petals, of the length 
of the stamens. 6 Aaa ee 
The drawing was taken in February from a plant culti- 
vated in the greenhouse of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and 
Milne, at the Fulham Nursery. 
