AUSTRALIAN PROTEACEZÆ, 181 
inconspicuo obtuso trilobo, capsula polysperma depressa profunde 
trigastra vix stipitata vertice truncata basi nunc attenuata nunc 
truncata, 
Has. Hills of Scinde and Lower Beloochistan ; after rain. It is 
called Junglee Bussur, or Wild Onion, and its bulbs are eaten. No. 
634, 
Leaves 6-8 inches. Scape 8-12 inches. Peduncles in flower 2 lines, 
in fruit 3—4 lines. Bracts 21 lines long. Fruit 4 lines by 3.—It is 
very near U. serotinum, but differs in its flowers, which are the colour 
of the leaves, and in its few-flowered not many-flowered raceme. 
A List of the Proreacem collected in South-western Australia by Mr. 
JAMES DRUMMOND; Jy Dr. and Pnorzsson C. F. MEISNER. 
[Previous to this list being printed, it was submitted to our friend Mr. 
Kippist, Librarian of the Linnean Society, who returned it with the 
accompanying remarks, which cannot fail to be acceptable to the pos- 
sessors of Mr. Drummond’s Swan River plants. “ I have carefully com- 
pared it with the list kept by myself of Mr. Saunders's set, and find the 
numbers in general very correctly given, with the exception of two distinct 
series having been confounded under Collection IV., an error which 
Dr. Meisner evidently suspected, but had not the means of correcting. 
Of those marked IV. in his list, the higher Nos. (between 500 and 700) 
all belong to the earliest of the numbered collections, the only one of - 
Which the numbers are quoted in the first volume of * Plantæ Preissi- 
an.’ The remaining Nos. (about 250-320) are all that really belong — 
to the fourth set. Asa further means of distinguishing these, in case fe 
you should think it desirable to do so, I have taken the liberty of pre- 
fixing the date (1848) to those which I found marked in my list as 
belonging to the fourth collection. The remaining IV.’s may therefore 
be altered to I., and the sequence of the different series will then be 
correct. Should you think it worth while, before printing the list, to 
make this alteration, it will be necessary to distinguish by the addition 
of an asterisk, or in some other way, the unnumbered series, Meisner's 
Collection I.”—The date (1848) is here added, as suggested by Mr. 
Kippist.—Ep.] | 
