_OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA._ Eight Chives. Four Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 4-phyllus. Corolla hypocrateriformis, 4-fida: tubo ventricoso, Nectaria 4, ad basin germinum. Capsulæ 4, superæ, 1-loculares, polyspermæ. EMPALEMENT 4-leaved. Blossom funnel-shaped, 4-sided: tube bellied. Nectaries 4, at the base of the seed-buds. Capsules 4, above, one-celled, many-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. VEREA foliis lato-lanceolatis, oppositis, crenatis, crassis: floribus paniculatis, terminalibus: corollis albentibus: laciniis oris acutissimis. VEREA with leaves broadly lance-shaped, opposite, scolloped, and thick. Flowers paniculated and terminal. Blossom whitish: segments of the border very pointed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom spread open. 3. Seed-buds and pointals. 4. The same magnified. * * * * * This new species of Verea flowered (we believe, for the first time in this country) in the collection of the Hon. C. Greville at Paddington, whence our drawing was taken. The foliage is compact, and rather handsome. The flowers are by no means specious; but, as it blossoms in the depth of winter, its rivals are but few. This considered, with the addition of its novelty, renders it a valuable acquisition to the hot-stove. [Illustration] PLATE DLXI. XERANTHEMUM FRAGRANS. _Fragrant Xeranthemum._ CLASS XIX. ORDER II. _SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA._ Tips united Superfluous. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. RECEPTACULUM paleaceum aut nudum. Pappus setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus: radio colorato. RECEPTACLE chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly, Empalement tiled, rayed: the ray coloured. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. XERANTHEMUM foliis undulatis, lanatis, apice reflexis: floribus parvis, odoratis, terminalibus: radiis calycis exterioribus rubris: radio interiore albo. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. XERANTHEMUM with waved woolly leaves reflexed at the point: flowers small, sweet-scented and terminal: the outer rays of the empalement red, the inner one white. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A scale from the outer ray of the empalement. 2. A scale from the inner ray. 3. A flower of the disk. * * * * *