APPENDIX. XXXIX 



entire leaves, and rather liandsonie violet and wliite flowers 

 on long- erect peduncles, called by Endliclier Plyea glauca ; 

 and another downy small blunt-leaved species with white 

 flowers, probably referable to the same genus. 



Many Dilleniaceous plants occur, together with two spe- 

 cies of Clematis^ a Rammculus {Colononim, Endl.), and 

 several Apiacece of singular but not beautiful forms ; there is 

 also Pelarcjonium I'dtorale, an uninteresting species figured in 

 Hugel's Archiv (t. 5), an Accena, two Plantagos, a Myrio- 

 phylluvi, and a couple of Boraginaceous plants, resembling 

 Myosotis. To these must be added the singular genus Dl- 

 plopeltis, of which a plate and full account are given in the 

 Botanical Register for 1839, t. 69. 



Nuytsia jiorihunda (Tab. IV.), a beautiful shrub, with 

 very large thyrses of bright orange-coloured flowers, has 

 already been mentioned (p. iv). It is a singular instance of 

 a plant belonging to the parasitical order Loranthace/e 

 growing upon the ground. In a manuscript note, commu- 

 nicated to me by Mr. Allan Cunningham, it is stated to 

 flower in the summer months (December and January), and 

 such is the abundance of the orange-coloured blossoms, that 

 the Colonists at King George's Sound compare it to a tree 

 on fire ; hence it has gained the name of " Fire tree." A 

 second species {N. ligicstrina, A. C.) was found by Mr. Cun- 

 ningham in 1817 in the more arid parts of the Blue Moun- 

 tains west from Port Jackson ; he tells me it forms a very 

 bushy shrub, three feet high, and flowers usually in the 

 spring of the Colony (October). The only other species of 

 the same order, yet found, is a species of Loranthus, growing 

 parasitically upon the " Black Wattle." 



Of LoBELiACE^ there are only three of any interest for 

 their beauty, and we already possess them in our gardens. 

 L. heterophylla and ramosa, the latter a most variable plant, 

 are now common ; but the third, Isotoma Brownii, is ex- 

 tremely rare, although its great beauty would render it a 

 most ornamental plant. The figure of it under the name of 

 Lobelia hypocrateriformis in the Botanical Magazine, fig. 

 3075, was taken from a starved specimen, and gives no idea 

 of its appearance. In its native state the stem is as thick as 

 a swan's quill, one and a half to two feet high, and in one of 

 my specimens has above forty flowers all open at once ; 

 the colour in the Botanical Magazine, viz. a rich violet 



