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84 HELICHRYSUM scorpioides. 



Labillard nov. Jioll 2. 45. ;. 191. DC, prodr. 6. 194. 



This very beautiful New Holland plant has lately flowered 

 in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had 

 been sent by R. Mangles, Esq. who imported the seeds. It 

 looks like a yellow everlasting-flower ; the heads are large, 

 very convex, bright yellow, almost metallic in their brilliancy; 

 and when opened beneath a bright sun are as handsome as 

 those of any composite flower I am acquainted with. It is a 

 greenhouse herbaceous plant, propagated by cuttings. 



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85. BROMELIA discolor. 



arctissim^ 



strobilum sessilem lateralem glomeratis squamis rigidis pungentibus spinoso- 



serratis, calyclbus ovariisque tiriangularibus glaberrimis. 

 Fo^ia viridia, spinoso-serrata, glabra, 2-pedalia, basi dilatata; spinis nigrescenti- 



bus, aequahbus. .S/ro6z7i sessfles, axillares, inter folia exteriora, ovata, rigida, 

 3 polhces longa ; squamis ovato-oblongis, rigidis, arctissim^ appressis, ser- 

 ratis, exterioribus brunnels, lucidis, subfurfuraceis acutis, interioribus apice 

 viridibus acuminatissimis ; intimis albis, carinati's, floribus brevioribus. 



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quisque bracteoLe carinatse axillaris. Calyx glaber, triqueter, decolor, sepa- 



membranaceis 



rosea, mox discolora, oblonga, erecta, convexa, unguiculata, basi in tubum 

 longum connata, calyce longiora, inappendiculata. Stamina 6, erecta ; 3 

 peta IS opposita basi Kmbi inserta ; 3 alterna basi dilatata utrinque dentata 

 petala connectentia. ArithercB lineares, erectee, sagittate, recta. Ovarium 

 glabrum, ommn5 inferum, triquetrum, 3-loculare, polyspermum ; ovulis uni- 

 senatis; sfyZtts p^iueter; stigmata 3, linearia, facie interiore elandulosa, 

 erecta, non tortilla. ' ^ 



^ A rare South American stove plant, which flowered lately 

 in the possession of Miss Gamier, of Wickham, near South- 

 ampton who obtained it from South America. It has sessile 

 spiny, heads of dull pink flowers, which change to brown, 

 and IS ^ not a handsome species. B. hngifolia of Rudg 



seems its nearest ally. It will be seen by the foregoing 



description, that it differs in some respects from the pani 



cled Bromehas, especially in the long tube of the corolla 



and the long simple stigmas. There does not, however 



appear to be any immediate necessity for creating a nev 

 genus for it. 



