with a close-pressed silky pubescence, split in front for the exclusion
of the style, 4-parted, the latinise unequal, rolled back,
the points hollow; two upper ones longest. Stamens 4, inserted
in the hollow points of the latinise, which are at first closed together,
and include the stigma. Ovarium slightly pedicled, clothed
with long white wool. Style red, smooth, very long, the
point bent a little backwards. Stigma oblique, depressed, convex
in the centre.
For the opportunity of giving a figure of this rare and handsome
plant, we are obliged to Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury
Hill, near Dorking, in whose choice collection we had the pleasure
of seeing it in full bloom in April last; and we are informed
by his Gardener, Mr. David Cameron, that it still continues
to produce flowers, so that it will probably flower nearly
all the year through. We at first were inclined to consider it as
a new species; but upon comparing it with cinna specimens of G. con- in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, the only difference we can
perceive, is that the whole of its leaves are entire, which we
conclude will be the case with ours when the plants get older,
as we observe the shoots that are last made have less divided
leaves on them. We also saw plants of it at the Nursery of
Mr. Mackay, who informs us that he raised them from seeds
sent by Mr. Baxter, under the name that we have adopted, and
who gathered them in King George’s Sound. Mr. Brown
mentions it as a native of Lewin’s Land, on the South Coast of
New Holland, growing in barren places near the sea. It is a
hardy Greenhouse plant, thriving well in an equal mixture of
light turfy loam, peat, and sand; the pots to be well drained,
that it may not get sodden with too much wet. Ripened cuttings
taken off at a joint will strike root, if planted thinly in pots of
sand, and placed under a hand-glass in a very little bottom heat.
The genus was named by Mr. Brown, who dedicated it to
the late Right Honourable Charles Francis Greville, one of the
Vice-Presidents of the Royal Society, and who possessed a
select collection of rare and interesting plants.
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