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incumbent on me to send Hakea Victoria* in some form to my 
subscribers, and, for this plant, pressure is altogether out of the 
question, as the bracts break before they will bend in any direction. 
I tied up sixteen of the bract-bearig tops in two bundles, fastening 
them together with the creepmg shoots of the Black creeper, 
Kennedya nigricans, and slung them one at each side of my old 
grey poney, Cabbine. The load, although not very heavy, was a 
most awkward one to get through the bushes, and he never bore 
anything so unwillingly. One specimen, fourteen feet high, 1 
carried in my hand all the way to Cape Riche; but notwith- 
standing all the care I took, the brilliant colours in the bracts of 
this extraordinary plant were much faded before I could get 
it to King George’s Sound.” 
NELUMBIUM JAMAICENSE; re-discovered in Jamaica. 
Near Ly, if not quite, a century has rolled away since Dr. Patrick 
Browne, a Naturalist and Physician resident in Jamaica, detected, 
and soon after described in his Natural History of Jamaica, a 
species of Nelwmbium bearing yellow flowers, different from that 
of the East Indies, growing in certain lagoons of the island in 
question : and presenting an equally stately appearance with the 
splendid and well-known species of the Old World. Strange 
to say, notwithstanding the researches of succeeding botanists, 
neither lacking in knowledge nor zeal, the Nelwmbium Jamaicense 
das been sought in vain: so that all hitherto known of it has 
been through the brief account of it by Patrick Browne above 
quoted. No specimen exists, we believe we are correct m 
saying, in any Herbarium; and, as the Nelumbium speciosum 
had disappeared from the Nile, where it was formerly known 
as a sacred emblem, so it has been by many supposed that our 
plant had been lost to Jamaica; or others believed that Patrick 
Browne had ignorantly taken some other well-known Vymphe- 
aceous plant for a new Nelumbium. 
_We can well conceive, then, with what pleasure our excellent 
friend, Dr. M’Fadyen of Kingston, Jamaica, must have received 
the agreeable tidings, in August last, of the re-discovery of this 
* Noble specimens of the three plants here noticed have reached our hands, 
and bear testimony to the correctness of Mr. Drummond’s remarks. The ~ 
Banksia is probably the little-known B. Solandri, Br.: the others are quite new. 
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