troduccd from Norfolk Island, and dispersed through the 

 country with an exasperated account of its beauty, under the 

 name of Streblorhiza speciosa, by which it was described by Dr. 

 Endlicher in his Prodromus of the Flora of Norfolk Island ; 

 a small systematic work drawn up from the materials of the 

 late Mr. Ferdinand Bauer. It was originally found on Philip's 

 Island, a rocky fragment detached from the mainland on the 

 south. Since the publication of the work just quoted the 

 learned author has ascertained that the genus does not really 

 differ from Clianthus, to which it is therefore reduced. Al- 

 though not the magnificent plant it was said to be, it is cer- 

 tainly a species well worthy of cultivation. Its real character 

 cannot be more truly stated than in the following extract of 

 abetter from Mr. Pince of Exeter, in whose extensive collec- 

 tion it has recently flowered, and to whom I am indebted for 

 a specimen. 



"In a cold conservatory it is covered with bunches of 

 flowers, and has succession enough to continue so for a month 



or two longer. I think it was at first over-rated, and then 



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 as erroneously condemned. I am of opinion that it will prove 



a very good conservatory creeper ; it twines freely of its own 



accord up one of the pillars of our Camellia house, and has 



fine evergreen foliage." 



10. ACACIA platyptera; aphylla, hirsuta, ramis latis alatis, phyllodiis bre- 

 vibus decurrentibus oblique truncatis : nervo diagonals ex angulo inferiore 

 decurvo mucronato ortum suurn ducente, capitulis solitariis breviter 

 pedunculatia. 



A greenhouse shrub from the Swan River, recently raised 

 in the Exeter nursery, by Messrs. Lucombe. Pince, and Co. 

 It has the general characters of Acacia alata ; but is more 

 coarsely hairy than any variety yet seen of that species, and 

 the wings to its stem are much broader. The imperfect ex- 

 pansions that represent the leaves are obliquely cut off, and 

 turned downwards at the lower angle, which is tipped with a 

 projecting point that forms the upper extremity of a rib which 

 runs thence in a diagonal direction till it reaches the axil. 

 The flowers are very bright deep yellow, and collected in small 

 balls, whose stalk is about equal to their own diameter. 



11. SOBRALIA sessilis; caule foliisque subtus nigro-pubescentibus, foliis 

 sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 2 terminalibus squamaeformibu 



