a 
. Glabra is the first of the genus that has presented itself 
in our european gardens, and is native within the Colony of 
Port Jackson, where it was found by Mr. Brown, whose 
Herbarium contains likewise four more of its congeners, of 
which that gentleman has favoured us with the following 
account. Three, our plant being one, were observed by him 
in the colony above mentioned as well as in Van Diemen’s 
Island, and agree in having a petioled stipuled foliage and 
icosandrous flowers; a fourth he discovered on the south- 
west coast of New Holland, this had likewise a petioled 
stipuled foliage, but the flowers were decandrous; the fifth 
he observed on the north coast of the same continent (in 
the bay of Carpentaria), in that the flowers were icosandrous 
as in the three first mentioned species, but it differed from 
all the others in having a foliage without either petioles or 
stipules. Through these modifications the genus will be 
found to unite with its confining co-ordinates at different 
points. 
All five are heathlike shrubs; with small, generally an- 
ular, scattered, imbricated, glandularly dotted leaves, 
mostly petioled, and furnished with minute setaceous deci- 
duous stipules; white or purple axillary solitary bibracteate 
wers, the bractes membranous, keeled, persistent, and 
connate at the base; a superior calyx with cylindrical tube, 
5-parted limb, awned and persistent segments; 5 deciduous 
petals; stamens (generally indefinite, seldom ten) all an- 
therbearing, deciduous; a one-celled, two-seeded germen; 
and a‘ one-seeded dry indehiscent seedvessel (Achenopsis of 
Mr. Brown). 
The leaves of our plant, when fresh, are perfectly cylin- 
drical; but when dry, triangular, owing to the flesh shrink- 
ing from the longitudinal nerves or ribs. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- 
ville, King’s Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowered early 
in the summer; being kept in the greenhouse and treated 
like the Cape Heaths. We understand that it had been 
very lately imported by Mr. Rollison, the nursery-man. 
Mr. Brown thinks the genus should be placed next to 
Eucent4 in the Linnean system. 
