As the extreme brilliancy of this plant cannot be done justice to in painting, we must rest satisfied with having done our best; every person in the least acquainted with the art, must know, that in yellow the shining colour existing in nature cannot be retained in a drawing. This species is annual, and according to the Kew Catalogue, was introduced to the royal gardens by Mr. F. Masson in the year 1787. The seeds should be sown on a hotbed in the month of February, and by the end of August the plants will flower, and continue to blossom till the end of October; never failing to perfect their seeds. [Illustration] PLATE LVIII. BORONIA PINNATA. _Hawthorn-scented Boronia._ CLASS VIII. ORDER I. _OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Eight Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium quadripartitum; laciniis acutis, persistentibus. COROLLA. Petala quatuor, ovata, sessilia. _Nectarium_ coronæ forma, excavatum, glandulosum. STAMINA. Filamenta octo, plana, ciliata, incurvata, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ infra apicem filamentorum pedicillatæ, incumbentes. PISTILLUM. Germen superum, conicum, quadrisulcatum. Stylus brevissimus, simplex. Stigma capitatum, glabrum, sulcatum. PERICARPIUM. Capsulæ quatuor, ovato-acuminatæ, compressæ, margine introrsum coalitæ, apicibus distantibus, sutra superiori dehiscentes, bivalves. SEMINA solitaria sæpius, nitida, reniformia, arillata. EMPALEMENT. Cup with four divisions; segments sharp pointed, and remaining. BLOSSOM. Petals four, egg-shaped, sitting close to the cup. _Honey-cup_ of the shape of a crown, hollowed, and glandular. CHIVES. Eight threads, flat, fringed, turned inwards, and fixed into the receptacle. Tips fixed below the ends on the inside of the threads, on short foot-stalks, and lying on them. POINTAL. Seed-bud above, conical, and four-furrowed. Shaft very short, and simple. Summit headed, smooth, and furrowed. SEED-VESSEL. Capsules four, of a pointed egg-shape, flattened, joined by the interior edge, the points standing separate, splitting from the upper suture, two-valved. SEEDS mostly solitary, shining, kidney-shaped, and covered with an elastic coat. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Boronia foliis impari-primatis, integerrimis; pedunculis axillaribus, dichotomis; filamentis apice obtusis, glandulosis. Boronia with leaves abruptly winged, entire; flower-stalks growing from the base of the leaves, forked; end of the threads blunt, and glandular. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, (natural size). 2. The Chives, and Pointal. 3. One Chive, (magnified). 4. The Pointal, and Honey-cup, (natural size).