This species of Protea well deserves a place in any collection, as, in addition to its light and graceful appearance, it is possessed of a most agreeable fragrance. There is a variation of it with white flowers, but exactly the same in every other particular. It remains a considerable time in bloom, but not many umbels of flowers are expanded at the same time. We have seen it in several collections. It is a Cape species, and appears to be of easy culture. [Illustration] PLATE DXLVI. MONARDA PUNCTATA. _Dotted-flowered Monarda._ CLASS II. ORDER I. _DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Two Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX tubulosus, quinque-dentatus. Corolla ringens, labio superiore lineari, filamenta involvente. EMPALEMENT tubular, five-toothed. Blossom gaping: the upper lip linear, and enfolding the threads. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. MONARDA foliis lanceolatis, dentatis, minutè punctatis: floribus verticillatis, flavis, rubro punctatis: foliis involucri ovato-lanceolatis, glabris, incarnatis. Habitat in Americâ Boreali. MONARDA with lance-shaped leaves, toothed, and minutely dotted. Flowers grow in whorls, are of a yellow colour, and dotted with red: the involucrate leaves are ovately lance-shaped, smooth, and flesh-coloured. Native of North America. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower. 2. A blossom spread open, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. The only figure of the Monarda punctata we have seen is an uncoloured one in Plukenet’s Phytographia. It is a perfectly new species to the garden, and the only Monarda with yellow flowers at present known. Its specific title is particularly applicable to its bloom, as all the species yet enumerated are more or less punctured in the foliage, some so minutely as scarcely to be perceived without the aid of a magnifier. It is a native of Virginia in North America, but by whom introduced we have not been able to learn. Our drawing was made from plants in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, who raised it from seed last year, 1807; but it did not flower till the latter part of the present summer. It is a hardy perennial, and certainly a handsome addition to the genus. [Illustration] PLATE DXLVII. PASSIFLORA PERFOLIATA. _Perfoliate-leaved Passion-flower._ CLASS XX. ORDER V. _GYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA._ Chives on the Pointal. Five Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. TRIGYNA. Calyx 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Nectarium corona. Bacca pedicellata. THREE Styles. Cup 5-leaved. Petals 5. Honey-cup forming a crown. Berry standing on a footstalk. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. PASSIFLORA foliis bilobis: lobis oblongis, divaricatis, subtus punctatis, glaucis: laciniis calycinis linearibus. Habitat in Caribbæis. _Jacquin’s Hort. Schœn. vol. 2. tab. 182._