This is one of several handsome species which Mr. added to the number previously published in the Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ; and which Mr. introduced -- introduced into his valued Supplement, which appeared in 1830. It was detected in 1829, in the hilly region near King George's Sound, on the South-western shores of New Holland. Plants were raised from seeds soon after that period, and they form small, but handsome, bushy green- house plants; bearing numerous flowers in the month of May in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where our draw- ing was made in 1842.
Stems short, but much branched and straggling, glabrous, densely clothed with harsh, rigid, but graceful foliage. Leaves a span long, petioled, linear, deeply pin- natifid, almost to the rachis, more or less hairy; segments very narrow, linear, acute, almost subulate, curved down- wards, decurrent, dark green and shining above, white with dense down beneath: the rachis pale brown :-the lower segments are so far apart that the base of the leaf may be called pinnate, the rachis winged with the decurrent pin- nules. Flowers terminal, on exceedingly short branches, collected into an obconical head, shorter than the surround- ing foliage. Perianth with its tube glabrous, the four narrow, linear segments spathulate at their extremities and hairy. Style much longer than the perianth, glabrous. Stigma clavate.