red, with a broad grey-brown cloud at the margin: wings 
deep orange-red at the base above. Keel of two very obtuse 
whitish petals, deep orange towards the extremity. 
_ For the possession of this beautiful plant, the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden is indebted to Dr. Scorr, who sent the 
seeds from Van Dieman’s Land. These have flourished 
and the plants have been treated as hardy inmates of the 
greenhouse, where they blossom in May. ‘The species may 
possibly be only a variety of the P. traangulare of Brown, 
as given in the Botanical Magazine by Mr. Gawter, at t. 
1568. But this has a much more straggling habit, and 
longer branches, frequently throwing out new shoots from 
the axils of the leaves, the old leaves have much more obtuse 
angles, and the young ones are not angular at all :—the 
flowers are considerably larger and the lobes of the calyx 
particularly so. In one respect, indeed, neither the present 
plant, nor that of Mr. Sims, coincides with P. triangulare ; 
and that is in the exceedingly short peduncles, which are 
entirely covered with bracteas ; whereas it is stated in the 
Hortus Kewensis by Mr. Brown, “ pedunculis basi apice- 
que bracteatis, medio nudis.”’ 
_ Fig. 1. A Flower and Flower-bud. 2, Back view of the Vexillum. 3. 
The Ale. 4. The Carina :—magnified. 
