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Boronia (Australia is the home of this)

Australia is the home of this genus, which embraces about fifty species. Only one plant calls for addition to those described on p. 203, Vol. I.

B. heterophylla brevipes (variable-leaved, short-stalked). fl. bright scarlet, whorled at the leaf axils, usually in fours or sixes, drooping, sub-globose, 1/3in. to 1/2in. in diameter; petals broadly ovate, concave, sub-acute. April. l. very variable, sometimes quite simple, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, narrowly linear, apiculate, sometimes with one or two pairs of linear leaflets. Western Australia, 1881. An erect shrub, "said to attain the height of a man." (B. M. 6845.)