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Garden, Edinburgh, and flowered in May. I understand from Mr 

 Drummond that it is exceedingly common all over the district the ex- 

 pedition visited. Comparison with a specimen in the collection sent to 

 Professor Jameson by Dr Richardson, after his first expedition, leaves 

 no doubt about this being the plant mentioned by him ; but I question 

 the correctness of the aynonyme from De CandoUe, which Dr Richardson 

 (juotes with doubt. This I should think distinguished, among other marks, 

 by its oval, subacute leaves, and by the petals being nearly elliptical. 



Eriostemon salicifolius. 



E. salicifolius ; frutex foliis sparsis lineare-oblongis subfalcatis, coriaceis, 

 scabris, aveniis, apice callosis muticis, nervo intermedio obsoleto ; flori- 

 bus axillaribus, solitariis, pallidis, anlheris glabris, filamentis ciliatis. 



Description — Shrub erect. Stem nearly round. Branches little angu- 

 lar. Leaves scattered and adpressed, linear-oblong, somewhat falcate, 

 coriaceous, quite entire, rather hollow in front, rough, veinless, middle 

 rib obscurely marked behind, awanting in front. Flowers axillary, soli- 

 tary, pale lilac, on short, scaly pedicels. Calyx yellowish- white, ciliated. 

 Petals ovato-oblong. Stamens erect ; filaments reaching to the top of the 

 style, strongly ciliated : anthers cordate, smooth, appendage small, white, 

 recurved, naked ; pollen orange. Germen of five foliculi, united to each 

 other below the middle. Style single, dipping dowu between the apices 

 of the lobes of the germen. 



The rough leaves and scarcely angular stems of thLs plant would have 

 made me consider it as specifically distinct from Eriostemon salicifolius of 

 Smith {Crowea saligna of Sieber, not of Smith), had it not been for its 

 identity with what Dr Hooker believes to be authentic specimens of 

 this in his herbarium. It was raised at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, from seed sent from New Holland by Mr Eraser in 1823, under 

 the generic name oi Crowea. It has flowered in April last year and this, 

 has received the ordinary treatment of New Holland plants, and does 

 not seem of free growth. 

 Hedysarum nutans. 



H. iiutarts ; frutex ramosus, racemis compositis, terminalibus axillaribus- 

 que, ramisque pendulie, floribus gerainatis ; bracteis acutis ; foliis ter- 

 natis, pendulis, foliolis rhomboideis, integerrimis, utrinque tomentosis, 

 stipulis subulatis. 



Description. — With us a low slender s^rwft, much branched; branches long, 

 straggling, drooping ; bark brown, much cracked, desquamating. Leaves 

 scattered, temate, leafets rotundato-rhomboidal, undulate, mucronulate, 

 reticulate, soft with dense short tomentum on both sides, the terminal 

 one twice the size of the others, (three inches in either diameter,) and on 

 a petiol half its own length, the lateral ones just above the middle of the 

 common petiol, on short partial petiols ; common petiol from its base to 

 the terminal leafet fully three inches long, slightly channelled above. Sti- 

 pulcB lateral, subulate. Racemes a foot long, terminal or axillary, branched. 

 Flowers in pairs, on pedicels nearly as long as themselves, the panicle 

 branching from between them, but many of tne branches shewing no more 

 than their terminal flower-bud. Calyx 4-cleft, opposite segments equal, 

 ovate, subacute, concave, spreading, and on the outside, as well as the 

 peduncle and pedicels, hairy. Corolla of uniform delicate lily, gaping ; 

 vexillum erect, flattish, subrhomboid, notched, faintly ^mted, and 

 marked in the middle with a deeper purple spot, the lower part of which 

 is green ; unguis inversely conical ; aire depressed, about as long as the 

 vexillum, and nearly forming a right angle with it, lower edges in con- 

 tact in the anterior half, open behind, abruptly cut down to narrow, 

 flattened, linear claws, which are continuous with their lower edges ; 

 keel rather paler than the rest of the flower, and somewhat more dis- 

 tinctly striated, shorter than the alse, notched at its apex, and split from 

 the base to nearly half its length, having two linear claws, above which 

 it is gibbous on both sides, and adheres there to corresponding depres- 

 sions of the alee. It shuts the opening between the claws of these, so 



