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The scape is about nine inches long; the flowers are 

 fleshy, dull green, slightly spotted with purple. The labellum 

 is an ovate fleshy body with revolute edges, concave only on 

 the upper side, and with two little mucronate processes at 

 the base, one on each side. 



111. SENEClO odoratus. Horn. hort. hafn. 2. 809. DC.prodr.v'u 371. 



Why this is called " sweet-scented" is unintelligible, for 

 it has no smell. It is a glaucous herbaceous plant, with 

 simple terete stems, rising in a crowd from the crown of the 

 root, and growing one and a half to two feet high. The 

 leaves are firm like those of an evergreen bush, oblong, 

 toothed, auriculate, and covered with a thick blue bloom, 

 which however readily rubs ofl", when they become bright 

 green and shining; they are not however acuminate, as 

 DeCandolle describes them, in the garden plant. The 

 flower-heads are yellow, small, scentless, rayless, and ar- 

 ranged in corymbose panicles ; and although destitute of 

 individual beauty, they form rather a pretty eff'ect by the 

 neatness of their figure, their abundance, and the contrast 

 of their colour with that of the leaves. I leave this plant in 

 Senecio, observing, however, that its receptacle is alveolate, 

 and the alveoli bordered by a deep irregularly toothed border, 

 which gives the receptacle the appearance of being paleate. 

 The plant has flowered in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, where it has been raised from seeds collected in the 

 south-east interior of New Holland by Major Sir Thomas 

 Mitchell. 



112. 'E\JRYB1 A glut'mosa; fruticosa, undique puncticulis elevatis cinereis 

 scabriuscula, ramis subangulatis glutinosis calvis, foliis linearibus utrinque 

 viridibus obtusis marglne rotundatis nee revolutis, peduneulis eorymbosis 

 monoeepbalis foliorum longitudine, invol. eylindracei squamis ovato-llneari- 

 bus apiee obtusis herbaceis margine membranaceis, radio 9- 12-floro invo- 

 lucro longiore. 



A native of Van Diemen's Land, where its seeds were 

 collected by Mr. Bunco, who sent them to the Horticultural 

 Society. It forms an erect shrub, closely covered with long 

 narrow leaves like those of rosemary in form, and produces 

 in the month of August, at the end of its young shoots, from 

 three to five heads of flowers, whose starry ray is long and 

 a clear pale violet. It is a pretty addition to the Conserva- 

 tory. This species is nearly related to Euryhia ledifolia, a 



