River plants described in the Appendix to the Botanical 

 Register, now in course of publication, in its long narrow 

 leaves and scape, which are quite destitute of hairiness, ex- 

 cept when the former are very young, at which time they are 

 fj-inged with delicate down. Besides these there exists at 

 the Swan River a species, of which I have a specimen, that 

 I presume to be new, but which I am unable to publish with 

 confidence as such, which must be by far the handsomest of 

 all ; its scape is two feet high, and much longer than the 

 leaves, which are glaucous, red-edged, smooth, and half an 

 inch broad. Specimens were sent home by Mr. Drummond, 

 from whom the seed might be readily obtained, if this de- 

 scription, brief as it is, were transmitted to him. 



The only description of the seed which I have seen is in 

 Endlicher's Genera, no. 1234, where it is said to have an 

 axile embryo shorter than the fleshy albumen. Such, however, 

 is by no means the structure of this species, of which the ripe 

 seeds have a very minute embryo lying in an oblique cavity 

 of the albumen, in the region of the hilum. 



