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more than an inch long, arc of the same colour. The leaves 

 are from four to six inches long, ovate-lanceolate, flat, pale 

 green, with a rich red marginal line, within which, at the 

 distance of a quarter of a line, runs a faint intramarginal 

 vein ; when bruised they have a faint and rather pleasant 

 smell ; very few transparent dots are visible ; the veins are 

 delicate lines, almost at right angles to the midrib, from three- 

 fourths to one and a half lines asunder, and running somewhat 

 parallel till they lose themselves in the intramarginal vein ; 

 they are held together by fine reticulations. The whole ap- 

 pearance of the foliage is that of a Calophyllum. The flowers 

 are large and white ; the cup is obconical, six lines long, and 

 as much across the mouth ; the lid however is only half that 

 diameter and hangs to the edge of the cup on one side, by a 

 narrow neck, so that it cannot fall off; this arises from the 

 cup continuing to enlarge after the separation of the lid. 



158. HAKEA ruscifoUa. Labillarcl Nov. Holl 1. 30. t. 39. R. Brown in 

 Linn. Trans. 10. 186. prodr. 585. 



Although this plant was introduced many years ago it 

 may be as well to mention that it has again been raised from 

 New Holland seeds, collected near Swan River, and is in 

 many gardens without a name. It forms a low grey bush, 

 thinly covered with long white feeble hairs ; the leaves are 

 narrow oblong, tapering to the base, and extended at the 

 point into a spine of variable length. The flowers are pure 

 white, with a faint smell of honey, and grow in dense umbels 

 shorter than the leaves. In the form and size of the foliage 

 this plant seems to be greatly influenced by climate, the 

 leaves becoming small and the spine long as the air is hot 

 and dry, or long and large, with a short spine, as it is cool 

 and damp. Age too has no doubt an effect upon the species 

 in this respect. It is a good greenhouse shrub. 



159. ROSCOEA lutea. Royle's Illustrations of the Himalayas, p. 361. 

 t. 89. fig. 2. 



Mr. Rogers received the roots of this Scitamineous plant 

 from Northern India two or three years ago ; they were mixed 

 with those of Orchidaceous plants. He finds it flower and 

 flourish very well in the greenhouse, during the summer, 



