rium smooth. Style smooth, a little longer than the stamens.
Stigma a simple point.
This beautiful species is one of the most variable plants in
the genus, scarcely any two of them raised from seeds being
alike. Mr. Loddiges has figured the short broad-leaved one,
as a different species, under the name of A. brevifolia, but
this is the most common state of the species, and we have frequently
raised that and his A. lunata out of the same pod of
seed, besides others, intermediate between the two, and of various
other shapes; the size of the heads of flowers also vary
considerably on the different plants. We have examined numerous
fine native specimens of this species in Mr. Lambert’s
Herbarium, some of which were received from Sieber, so that
we are certain of our plant being the A. lunata of Decandolle.
In the native specimens we observe the same variation as in
the cultivated plants.
Our drawing was made last Spring from a fine plant in the
select collection of the Comtesse de Yandes, at Bayswater; the
plant was intermediate between the two extreme states of the
species, three or four other plants of it were in flower at the
same time, and all of them differed either in leaf or flower: it
is a native of Van Diemen’s Island, and from seeds received
from thence, we have frequently raised it, so that it must be
pretty hardy, and will most likely succeed well by the side of
a wall on a warm border, to be protected with a mat in severe
frosty weather; there is not a more beautiful species in this
numerous division of the genus, and nothing can appear more
lovely than it is, when loaded with its bright yellow, almond-
scented flowers; a mixture of sandy loam and peat suits it very
well; and young cuttings, planted in pots of sand, under bell-
glasses, will strike root; it also produces seeds occasionally.
1, Calyx. 2. The 5 Petals and Stamens. 3. Ovarium slender Style and simple Stigma. terminated by the long