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troduced from Norfolk Island, and dispersed through the 
country with an exaggerated account of its beauty, under the 
name of Streblorhiza speciosa, by which it was described by Dr. 
Endlicher in his Prodromus of the Flora of Norfolk Island ; 
a small systematic work drawn up from the materials of the 
late Mr. Ferdinand Bauer. It was originally found on Philip’s 
Island, a rocky fragment detached from the mainland on the 
south. Since the publication of the work just quoted the 
learned author has ascertained that the genus does not really 
differ from Clianthus, to which it is therefore reduced. Al- 
though not the magnificent plant it was said to be, it is cer- 
tainly a species well worthy of cultivation. Its real character 
cannot be more truly stated than in the following extract of 
a letter from Mr. Pince of Exeter, in whose extensive collec- 
tion it has recently flowered, and to whom I am indebted for 
a specimen. 
‘In a cold conservatory it is covered with bunches of 
flowers, and has succession enough to continue so for a month 
or two longer. I think it was at first over-rated, and then 
as erroneously condemned. I am of opinion that it will prove 
a very good conservatory creeper ; it twines freely of its own 
accord up one of the pillars of our Camellia house, and has 
fine evergreen foliage.” 
10. ACACIA platyptera ; aphylla, hirsuta, ramis latis alatis, phyllodiis bre- 
vibus decurrentibus obliqué truncatis: nervo diagonali ex angulo inferiore 
decurvo mucronato ortum suum ducente, capitulis solitariis breviter 
pedunculatis. 
A greenhouse shrub from the Swan River, recently raised 
in the Exeter nursery, by Messrs. Lucombe. Pince, and Co. 
It has the general characters of Acacia alata; but is more 
coarsely hairy than any variety yet seen of that species, and 
the wings to its stem are much broader. The imperfect ex- 
pansions that represent the leaves are obliquely cut off, and 
turned downwards at the lower angle, which is tipped with a 
projecting point that forms the upper extremity of a rib which 
runs thence in a diagonal direction till it reaches the axil. 
The flowers are very bright deep yellow, and collected in small 
Lr hose stalk is about equal to their own diameter. 
11. SOBRALIA sessilis ; caule foliisque subtis nigro-pubescentibus, foliis 
sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 2 terminalibus squameformibu 
