coloured. Ovarium smooth, conical. Style smooth, included in
the tube. Stigma 2 -lobed.
Our drawing of this pretty little shrub was made in March last,
at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay, at Clapton, from a plant that was
presented to him by Mr. Aiton, from his Majesty’s Royal Botanic
Garden at Kew, where it was introduced by his Majesty’s collector,
Mr. Allan Cunningham, and is described by him, and a figure of
it published, in the Appendix to Barron Field’s Geographical
Memoirs of New South Wales, where he mentions it as “ A Shrub
frequent upon Pine Hills in the interior, being a third and hitherto
unpublished species of this interesting genus, originally discovered
by me in 18175 and again seen in October, 1822.”
The present plant is desirable on account of the fragrance of
its fl owners, which are also very pretty, and are produced in abundance
in the Spring; it succeeds well in the Greenhouse, in a mixture
of sandy loam and peat, and will probably survive the Winter
in a warm border in the open ground, so as to be covered with
amat in severe frost; young cuttings of it strike root readily,planted
in pots, in a light sandy soil, and placed in a sheltered situation;
or if planted under a hand-glass, they will soon strike root, so that
some air be given to it, to keep them from damping off.
The generic name is derived from avOog a flower, and Ktpwc
a radius, from the long segments of the flower spreading out like
rays.
1. Leaf magnified, to show the stellated pubescence.tube laid open, to show the striped inside, and the insertion of th2e. CSatlaymxe. n3s., Cwoirtohl tlah,e wiri th the kidney-shaped anthers. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and two-lobed Stigma.