LIPARIA, with fasciculated flowers, leaves roundish concave, downy outwardly, and villose or naked within. LIPARIA villosa α. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 1117._ excluso synonymo Thunbergii; quod ad varietatem β. potius pertinet. LIPARIA vestita, floribus capitatis, foliis ovatis concavis subtus lanatis. _Thunb. Prod. 124. et etiam Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 1115._ GENISTA africana tomentosa, folio cochleariformi, flore luteo. _Seba Thes._ 1. _p. 38. tab. 24. f. 1._ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. The banner. 3. One of the wings. 4. The keel. 5. The chives and pointal. 6. The seed-bud. The Liparia villosa is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and rises with a shrubby, but not much branched stem, to the height of two or three feet. The silvery wool which clothes the younger branches and leaves of the plant, gives it a very handsome appearance; yet by age it sometimes acquires a somewhat rusty tint. The leaves are nearly round, and assume, particularly when dried, a deep concave form, and very much resemble in shape, small bivalve shells; a circumstance noticed long since by the great naturalist Seba, as will appear on consulting the synonyms above given. The variety β. of Willdenow has much narrower, and not concave leaves; and is a very distinct species. The concave-leaved Liparia is propagated, but not readily, by cuttings; prefers the treatment of a green-house plant, a light, but good soil; and, like most woolly plants, is very liable to be destroyed by damps. Our figure was taken in May last at George Hibbert’s, esq. [Illustration] PLATE CCCLXXXIII. PITTOSPORUM UNDULATUM. _Waved-leaved Pittosporum._ CLASS V. ORDER I. _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CAPSULA 2-5-locularis, 5-valvis. Semina tecta pulpa. Petala conniventia in tubum. CAPSULE 2-5-celled, 5-valved. Seeds covered with pulp. Petals converging into a tube. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C. PITTOSPORUM, foliis lanceolatis undulatis acutis. PITTOSPORUM, with lance-shaped, waved sharp-pointed leaves. DESCRIPTIO. Frutex erectus, ramosus. _Ramuli_ fusci, cicatricibus foliorum asperi. _Folia_ breviter petiolata, lanceolata, vel elliptico-lanceolata, acuta, undulata, rigida, lucida, viridia, et reticulatim venosa; subtus pallidiora. _Flores_ terminales, racemosi, albicantes, pedunculis inæqualibus, rufescentibus, obsolete bracteatis. _Calyx_ 5-fidus, deciduus, laciniis acutis, recurvis. _Corolla_, petala 5, lineari-lanceolata, obtusa, revoluta, inferne in tubum conniventia. _Stamina_, filamenta 5, receptaculo inserta, stricta, subulata, subcompressa, altitudine styli; antheræ erectæ, luteæ. _Stylus_ albidus, petalis brevior. Stigma obtusum. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. One of the petals. 3. The chives and pointal, with one tip magnified. 4. The pointal and seed-bud magnified.