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 77. GUNNIA picta. 



G. picta; labelli lobo intermedio minuto dentiformi lateralibus oblongis dimi- 

 diatis rotundatis sacco cornuto puberulo Eequalibus ; disco utrinque bidentato 

 basi bidenticulato. 



A curious little plant received from the neighbourhood of 

 Sydney by Messrs. Loddiges. It has small dingy purple 

 flowers, with a white labellum, neatly streaked with purple. 

 It differs from Gunnia australis in the flowers being much 

 smaller, with a very dissimilar labellum. 



78. BULBINE suavis. 



B. suavis ; radice fasciculata, foliis longissimis attenuates semiteretibus basi 

 canaliculars glaucis, racemo erecto multifloro, petalis oblongis subundulatis 

 sepalis duplo latioribus, staminibus ascendentibus filamentis apice stuposis 

 petalinis patentibus sepalinis erectis apice incurvis brevioribus. 



This pretty greenhouse plant was found by Major 

 Mitchell, the indefatigable Surveyor General of New South 

 Wales, in his last journey into the interior of New Holland, 

 in 1836. It resembles Bulbine annua in the tint of its 

 yellow flowers, but they are much larger, are arranged 

 in a longer raceme, and diffuse a delicious fragrance, re- 

 sembling that of Mignonette. The scape is between two 

 and three feet high. It flowered in the garden of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society in May 1838. Its root was dug up in the 

 rich plains of Australia Felix, about the 22nd of September, 

 1836, and it had at that time a much longer head of flowers 

 than the specimen now described. 



79. ELISENA longipetala. 



E. longipetala ; periantbii laciniis acuminatissimis convolutis. 



Folia numerosa, fere bipedalia, sesquiunciam lata, laete viridia, subacuta, leviter 

 carinata, margine Ice ia, subtus glaucescentia. Scapus 2-3-pedalis, ancipiti- 

 convexus, solidus, cceruleo-viridis, vix glaucescens. Umbella 5-flora, spatha 

 polyphylla scariosa reflexa ; pedicelli rigidi, semunciam longi, trigoni. 

 Ovarium trigonum, ovatum, leviter glaucescens, triloculare ; loculis apice 

 inanibus, basi dispermis ; ovulis erectis obovatis, carnosis. Perianthium 

 tubo brevi (semunciali) herbaceo, rigido, trigono, cum ovario continuo sed 

 demum marcescente ; laciniis 4 uncias longis, linearibus, acuminatissimis, 

 pone basin dorso herbaceis, caeterum albis, 2 inferioribus caeteris paulo 

 magis declinatis, omnibus demum reflexis et convolutis. Corona alba, 

 membranacea, cylindracea, sesquiuncialis, declinata, apice paulo dilatata, 



