Swan River Flora, which appear from the dried specimens to 

 be loaded with blossoms of a much larger size than this. 



It is believed that Messrs. Lowe and Co. of the Clapton 

 nursery had the honour of raising this plant first : it was, how- 

 ver, earliest flowered by Messrs. Veitch & Sons of Exeter, who 

 exhibited it before the Horticultural Society, and obtained 

 the large silver medal for it. 



By one of those unfortunate coincidences which now and 

 then occur, the last volume of DeCandolle's Prodromus, con- 

 taining the Goodeniaceous and Stylidiaceous orders, was pub- 

 lished about the same time as the Sketch of the Vegetation of 

 the Swan River Colony ; and hence there are many plants in 

 the one, described under different names in the other. Both 

 appear to have been published at the end of 1839 ; but the 

 Sketch was all printed in the month of November of that 

 year, and two-thirds were actually published by December 

 the first : while DeCandolle's Prodromus could hardly have 

 been on sale sooner than January, 1840; no copy that we are 

 aware of was in London before March, 1840. If so, the 

 names in the Sketch will stand, and DeCandolle's must give 

 way, according to the usage of Botanists in such cases. 



It is a hardy greenhouse plant, and as easily managed as 

 the old L. formosa. Cuttings root freely in spring and sum- 

 mer, if covered with a bell-glass and plunged in a mild bottom 

 heat. The young plants ought to have their shoots carefully 

 stopped, to enable them to send out numerous branches and 

 form compact bushes. It grows well in a mixture of peat and 

 vegetable mould, and would succeed well if planted out in the 

 border of a conservatory. 



