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with Messrs. Loddigea. It has small, pale, dull brownish 

 yellow flowers, of a very fleshy consistence. The specimen 

 that flowered was a small one; the Penang specimens brought 

 home by Dr. Wallich were nearly two feet high. 



104. CALYSTEGIA sepium. 



Brown Prodr. fl. nov, Holl. p. 339. 



It is not a little curious that a plant so much like our 

 common large European Bindweed should be found all over 

 the southern parts of New Holland, where it can scarcely be 

 supposed to have been introduced. I however quite a^ree 

 with Dr. Brown that the Australian plant is specifically iden- 

 tical with that of Europe. It has lately been raised in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society, from seeds collected by 

 Major Mitchell, the enterprizing Surveyor-General of Aus- 

 tralia ; and it does not present any valid marks of distinction 

 from C. sepium. The flowers are pink and rather larger, 

 and the posterior angles of the leaves more rounded, and 

 less angular than usual, but I observe no further differences. 



105. RCEPERA aurantiaca. 



Lindley in Major Mitchell's Australia, ined. 



A curious species of this small and well marked genus; 

 differing from R. fabagifolia in its linear leaflets, which are 

 not more than twice the length of the petiole, and in the 

 small size of the flowers, which are placed upon long erect 

 solitary peduncles. The petals are orange-yellow and acute, 

 and the fruit has semiorbicular wings. It was found by 

 Major Mitchell in his latest journey into the interior of New 

 Holland, and was raised in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, where it flowers in the open border in July, and will 

 probably continue to do so all through the autumn. 



106. PSORALEA cinerea. 



Lindley in Major Mitchells Australia. 



An erect apparently annual plant, with grey toothed 

 foliage, and small purple flowers in long stalked erect race- 

 H. August, 1838. i 



