River plants described in the Appendix to the Botanical 
Register, now in course of publication, in its long narrow 
leaves and scape, which are quite destitute of hairiness, ex- 
cept when the former are very young, at which time they are 
fringed with delicate down. Besides these there exists at 
the Swan River a species, of which I have a specimen, that 
I presume to be new, but which I am unable to publish with 
confidence as such, which must be by far the handsomest of 
all; its scape is two feet high, and much longer than the 
leaves, which are glaucous, red-edged, smooth, and half an 
inch broad. Specimens were sent home by Mr. Drummond, 
from whom the seed might be readily obtained, if this de- 
scription, brief as it is, were transmitted to him. | 
The only description of the seed which I have seen is in 
Endlicher's Genera, no. 1234, where it is said to have an 
axile embryo shorter than the fleshy albumen. Such, however, 
is by no means the structure of this species, of which the ripe 
seeds have a very minute embryo lying in an oblique cavity 
of the albumen, in the region of the hilum. 
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