crowded as in most other species. Involucre closely imbricate,
clothed with a dense short tomentum; the outer bractes ovate’
acute, fringed with the same sort of wool; inner ones linear,
some bluntish, others acute, and bearded with purplish brown
hairs, particularly at the margins. Perianthium deeply 4 -part-
ed, clothed with a dense ferruginous tomentum, and some long
slender hairs intermixed, bearded towards the base: lamina very
ong, linear, about the length of or a little longer than the unguis,
concave inwards, and bearded at the point with a tuft of
loose woolly hairs. Stamens 4, inserted in the hollow base of
the lamina; anthers linear, nearly the length of the lamina,
bursting longitudinally to discharge the pollen. Style smooth’
slightly angular, thickened towards point. Follicle smooth, much veinedth.e base. Stigma a simple
The present elegant plant is another of those that has been
raised at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay at Clapton, where our
drawing was made the beginning of September last; the seeds
were also collected and sent home by Mr. W. Baxter, Mr.
Henchman s indefatigable collector, who procured them on the
south coast of New Holland, where he obtained a rich harvest
of new and rare plants, the greater part of which are now growing
at Mr. Mackay’s Nursery, where some other species of this
curious genus are showing for bloom : the present is a dwarf
species, but makes a neat compact bush, and will, without
doubt, be a very free bloomer, and a very desirable plant
for the Greenhouse, several of Mr. Mackay’s plants being
now in bud for bloom. It requires precisely the same treatment
as D. longifolia, ^ fig. 3, of our first Number. Ripened
rcouottti nrgeas,d iplyla.nted under hand-glasses, in pots of sand, will strike
marg1in. sO. ne3 . oPfe trhiaen othuitnemr B srparceteasd. o2p. eOnn, es hoofw thineg inthnee rf oounre ss'ebgemarednetds, atht et hlea mbiancak vaenrdy lSotniggm, wa.i th5 t.h Teh leo nsgm loionteha rv eAinnethd eFro ilnliscelret.e d in each. 4. Style, terminated b3y a sim1ple