Dr Graham's List of Rare Plants. 



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limb divided to a third of its length 

 into five equal, acute segments. 

 Filaments inserted at the throat of 

 the tube. Seeds angular, angles 

 blunt. Pappus simple, placed ob- 

 liquely on the top of the seed, 

 which is more than double its length. 

 Style rather longer than the limb 

 in the tubular florets, and project- 

 ing nearly as much beyond the tube 

 of the ligulated florets. Stigma cle^t^ 

 segments projecting, converging. 

 Style and stigma awanting in 

 many of the florets. The florets of 

 the ray seem also generally barren, 

 and in them the stigma is small, 

 and the segments diverging. Re- 

 ceptacle pitted, hispid, and having 

 a few long soft hairs. The ^seeds 

 were received from Mr Fraser, 

 New Holland. 



Renealmia grandiflora. 

 Sweet's British Flower Garden, t. 64. 



Stylidium adnatum. 



. graminaefolium. 



Viola hederacea. 



Roots branching. Stem very abort 

 (4 inch), tapering, leafy, producing 

 many very long, filiform, jointed 

 stolons, joints sending down a per- 

 pendicular branched root, and form- 

 ing crowns from which other sto- 

 lons proceed. Leaves petiolate, 

 kidney-shaped, at first cucuUate, 

 afterwards convex on their up- 

 per surface, nerved, smooth, but 

 not shining, crenate or sinuato- 

 dentate, (1-14 i"^^ broad). Pe- 

 tioles (2-4 inches long) grooved, and 

 having a ridge in the centre of the 

 groove. Stipules generally two be- 

 tween the joints of the stolons, lan- 



ceolate, acuminate, toothed. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, erect, having one 

 indistinct groove, generally longer 

 than the petioles, procumbent, and 

 somewhat rolled when in fruit. 

 BractecB 2, slender, awl -shaped, 

 nearly opposite, placed in the 

 middle of the peduncle. Calyx 

 persisting, leaflets awl-shaped, with 

 very short spurs. Corolla inodo- 

 rous, resupinate, lowest petal the 

 largest, ovate, concave, emarginate, 

 blue and beautifully veined, white 

 at the apex, green at the base, 2 

 side petals nearly linear, twisted, 

 pubescent on the upper and lower 

 half of the inner surface, blue from 

 the base to the middle on the inside, 

 nearly to the apex without, vein- 

 ed ; upper petals spathulate, re- 

 flected, blue to near the middle in 

 front, almost to the apex behind. 

 Anthers nearly sessile, large, mem- 

 branous appendage pointed (cleft?) 

 brown. Pollen yellow. Germen 

 obovate. Seeds numerous, obovate, 

 attached to the centre of the valves, 

 black when ripe. Style white, bent 

 at its base, filiform. Stigma white, 

 tapering from the style, cleft, near- 

 ly straight. 

 The seeds of this plant wei-e sent by 

 Mr Fraser, colonial botanist at 

 Sydney, New Holland, in 1824, 

 and first raised last season. We 

 were not told in what part of the 

 country the plant is native. It 

 has been cultivated in the stove, 

 but is injured by great heat, and is 

 doing well in a cool frame, and no 

 doubt will thrive in the green- 

 house. It produces abundance of 

 stolons as well as seeds. 



