BAECKEA (named after Abraham Baeck, a Swedish physician, and an esteemed friend of Linnaeus). ORD. Myrtaceae. Very pretty greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Flowers white, pedicellate, small. Leaves opposite, glabrous, dotted. They thrive in a compost of sandy peat, leaf soil, and lumpy, fibrous loam. Cuttings, taken from young wood, root readily, if pricked in a pot of sand, with a bell glass placed over them, in a cool house. BAECKEA diosmaefolia (diosma-leaved).* fl. axillary, solitary, approximate, sessile. August to October. l. oblong, rather cuneated, keeled, acute, crowded, imbricate, and are, as well as the calyces, ciliated. h. 1ft. to 2ft. New Holland, 1824. BAECKEA frutescens (shrubby).* fl. solitary; pedicels axillary. November. l. linear, awnless. h. 2ft. to 3ft. China, 1806. (B. M. 2802.) BAECKEA parvula (little). fl., peduncles axillary, umbelliferous. l. elliptic-obliong, obtuse, rather mucronate. h. 1ft. New Caledonia, 1877. This is very close to BAECKEA virgata. (R. G. 866, 2.) BAECKEA virgata (twiggy).* fl., peduncles axillary, umbelliferous. August to October. l. linear-lanceolate. h. 2ft. to 3ft. New Caledonia, 1806. (B. M. 2127.)