Where to place the limits to the various new genera of this very extended natural order of plants, with butterfly blossoms, from New Holland, appears a talk of some difficulty with our modern botanists; for, no sooner have we formed an essential character for a genus, than immediately we are struck with the appearance of new plants, whose whole habits assimilate with our newly constructed family, but in the principal and pointed essential character. In such predicament stands our present subject, it wants the appendicula to the cup, yet has it been placed, by Willdenow, &c. to Pultenæa; and with good reason, we presume, for if every difference of this nature was taken up, on which to form new genera, nearly every plant from that country would furnish grounds for new names; and, to say the truth, we think they are, already, sufficiently extended. The Pultenæas are all rather impatient of wet, and although they are not frequently killed by too much moisture, yet they become unsightly, by losing all their lower leaves. This species grows to the height of about three feet; and, when in flower, makes a very handsome appearance. It perfects its seeds, and may be increased by cuttings, which should be put in about the beginning of April. A mixture of sandy peat three parts, and one fourth part of loam, is the best soil to grow it in. It was amongst the first plants which were raised from Botany Bay seeds in this country. Our figure was made at the Hammersmith nursery, in 1801. [Illustration] PLATE CCCX. STACHYS COCCINEA. _Scarlet Clownheal._ CLASS XIV. ORDER I. _DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA._ Two Chives longer. Seed naked. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, tubulatum, angulatum, semiquinquefidum, acuminatum, persistens; dentriculis acuminatis, subulatis, subinæquale. COROLLA monopetala, ringens; tubus brevissimus; faux oblonga, ad basin deorsum gibba; _labium superius_ erectum, subovatum, fornicatum, sæpe emarginatum; _labium inferius_ majus, trifidum lateribus reflexum; _lacinula intermedia_ maxima, emarginata, replicata. STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, quorum duo breviora, subulata, ad latera faucis recurvata. Antheræ simplices. PISTILLUM. Germen quadripartitum. Stylus filiformis, situ et longitudine staminum. Stigma bifidum, acutum. PERICARPIUM nullum. Calyx vix mutatus. SEMINA quatuor, ovata, angulata. EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leaf, tubular, angular, five shallow clefts, taper, permanent; toothless taper, awl-shaped, nearly equal. BLOSSOM one petal, gaping; tube very short; mouth oblong, hunched downwards towards the base; _upper lip_ upright, rather egg-shaped, arched, often notched at the end; _lower lip_ large, three-cleft, side ones reflexed; the _middle segment_, which is the largest, notched at the end, and folded back. CHIVES. Four threads, of which two are shorter, awl-shaped, bent to the sides of the mouth. Tips simple.