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The native country of this species is unknown ; it sprang 

 up in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, no doubt from 

 imported soil. It has a fine firm broad foliage, and rather 

 handsome white flowers, whose stalks and capsules are covered 

 closely with long spreading white hairs. 



75. LALAGE hovecefolia. Bentbam in Botanical Register, Appendix xiii. 



This plant, of which a specific character was given by 

 Mr. Bentham in the work above quoted, has flowered with 

 Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. of Exeter, by whom it was 

 exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural Society in Regent 

 Street, at the end of March last. The garden plant has 

 rather broader leaves ; and fewer flowers than the wild speci- 

 mens, wdiose branches are literally loaded with blossoms, of a 

 dull yellowish-orange, stained with purple at the back of the 

 standard. We have not seen it in a favourable state, for it is 

 said to expand fully only beneath bright light, but we should 

 expect it to be a plant of considerable beauty when old and 

 flowering freely. It is a pea-flowered genus, allied to Pul- 

 tenaea. The species is no doubt a greenhouse shrub of easy 

 cultivation. 



76. PULTEN^EA brachytrojris (Bentham mss.) ; ramis laxe sericeo-pilosis, 

 stipulis persistentibus erectis, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongo-knearibus 

 mucronatis margine revolutis pilosiusculis, capitulis terminalibus foliatis, 

 etipubs floralibus per paria connatis in bracteas fusco-menibranaceas 

 trifidas, laciniis lateralibus lanceolatis intermedia, abbreviate, calycis bi- 

 labiati laciniis superioribus ovatis inferioribus lanceolatis, carina alis 

 dimidio breviore. 



A pretty little greenhouse shrub, from Port Augusta, on 

 the South-west coast of New Holland, whence seeds were sent 

 to Capt. James Mangles, R.N. by Mrs. Molloy, a lady whose 

 zeal in the pursuit of Botany has brought us acquainted with 

 many of the plants of that little known part of the world. It 

 has something the habit of Chorozema Dicksoni, but the 

 flowers grow in heads, and are pale orange. 



77. NOTYLIA aromatica; (Barker in litt.) labello unguiculato ovato-rhom- 

 boideo acuminato basi utrinque deflexo ecalloso, sepalis apice revolutis 

 inferiore bilobo, petaks linearibus rectis acutis. 



A small inconspicuous species, with pale watery-green 



