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77. GUNNIA picta. 



G. picta ; labelli lobo intermedlo minuto dentiforaii lateralibus oblongis dlmi- 

 diatis rotundatis sacco cornuto puberulo aequalibus; disco utrinque bidentato 

 basi bidenticulato. 



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A curious little plant received from the neighbourhood of 

 Sydney by Messrs. Loddiges. It has small dingy purple 

 flowers, with a white labellum, neatly streaked with purple. 

 It differs from Gunnia australis in the flowers being much 

 Smaller, with a very dissimilar labellum. 



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78. BULBINE suavis. 



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B. snavis ; radice fasciculatS, foliis longlssimis attenuatis semiteretibus basi 



canaliculatis glaucis, racemo erecto multifloro, petalis oblongis subundulatis 



sepalis duplo latioribus, staminibus ascendentibus filamentis apice stuposis 

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petalinis 



This pretty greenhouse plant was found 



Mai 



Mitchell, the indefatigable Surveyor General of New South 

 Wales, in his last journey into the interior of New Holland, 



annua in 



in 1836. It resembles Bulbi 



yellow flowers, but they are much larg 



the 

 are 



of 



longer raceme, and diff*use a delicious frag 



ged 



sembling that of Mignonette. The scape is between two 

 and three feet high. It flowered in the garden of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society in May 1838. Its root was dug up in the 

 rich plains of Australia Felix, about the 22nd of September, 

 1836, and it had at that time a much longer head of flowers 

 than the specimen now described. 



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79. ELISENA longipetala. 



E. longipetala ; perianthii kciiiiis acumlnatisslmls convolutls. 



Folia numerosa, fer& bipedalia, sesquiunciam lata, laetfe viridh 

 carlnata, margine Iseia, subtiis glaucescentia. Scapus 2- 

 convexus, solidus, coeruleo-viridis, vix glaucescens. '^-"'" 



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ilyphyll 



reflexa ; pedicelTi rigidi, semunciam longi, trigonL 



Ovarium trigonum, ovatum, levit^r glaucescens, triloculare ; loculis apice 

 inanibus, basi dispermis ; ovulis erectis obovatis, camosis. Perianthium 

 tubo brevi (semunciali) herbaceo, rigido, tri^ono, cum ovario continuo sed 

 demura marcescente ; laciniis 4 uncias longis, linearibus, acuminatissimis, 

 pone basin dorso herbaceis, caeterum albis, 2 inferioribus caeteris paulo 

 maTis declinatis, omnibus demiim reflexis et convolutis. Corona alba, 

 membranacea, cylindracea, ses^quiuncialis, declinata, apice paulo dilatata, 



