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are subject), whilst the hitter merely indicates a character peculiar to 

 most young Bignoniacece (that of having alternate leaves). The largest 

 leaves are 12 inches long, the largest leaflets 3^ inches long, 1 inch 

 broad, whilst the smallest leaflets measure only \ inch in length, and. 

 \\ line in breadth. 



6. B. filiformis, Seem. ; F. Miill. Frag. Aust. iv. 149 ; arborea, 

 glabra; foliis irregulariter ternato- verticillatis, pinnatis, 1-3-jugis cum 

 imparl ; petiolis foliisque filiformibus ; racemis terminalibus paucifloris ; 

 pedicellis elongatis (l|-2 unc. long.) ; calyce eglanduloso ; corollas 

 (albse ?) glandulosse tube gi-acili calycem duplo triplove longiore, lobis 

 undulato-dentatis ; ovario glabro ; capsula subcylindraceo-arcuata (8-10 

 unc. long., \ unc. lat.), glabra (v. s. sp.). — Spathodea? filiformis, De 

 Cand. Prod. ix. p. 209 ; Benth. Fl. Aust. iv. p. 539. Stereospermum 



filiforrae, Ue Cand. Rev. in Bibl. Univ. Oct. 1838, sine descript. Big- 

 nonia filiformis, A. Cunn. in Herb. Hook. — Copeland Island, North 

 Coast of New Holland (A. Cunningham ! in Herb. Hook.) ; Victoria 

 Eiver (F. Muller ! in Herb. Hook.). 

 Largest leaflets 10-12 inches long. 



7. D. serrulata, Seem.; arborea; glabra, foliis oppositis, pinna- 

 tis, 2-4-jugis cum imparl, foliolis (imparl except.) subsessilibus obo- 

 vatis brevi-acuminatis basi cuntsatis obliquis integerrimis, vel hinc inde 

 grosse serratis ; floribus . . . ; capsula siliquseformi, compressa, glabra, 

 (2 ped. long.), seminibus biserialibus, alls pellucidis (v. s. sp.) — 

 Spathodea serridata, De Cand. Prodr. ix. p. 206. Bignonia serrulata,- 

 Wall. Cat. n. 6505 A. B. (Spathodea) lata, Wall. Cat. n. 6505 ; De 

 Cand. Prodr. ix. p. 171. Stereospermum serrulatum, De Cand. Rev. 

 Bign. — Geogr. Distr. Banks of the Irawaddy (Wallich ! Cat. n. 6505); 

 Stony Hills, Central India (Edgeworth ! in Herb. Benth.). 



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Alyssum incanum, L. — Has any botanist observed this plant in 

 the clover-fields of England of late years ? In the autumn of 1870, 1 

 found it by scores in two fields of clover in Surrey, a dozen miles apart. 

 The plants had been cut off at the first mowing, but they had branched 

 out again, and had conspicuously outgrown the clover, which was thin 

 and short for the second mowing, through the unusual dryness of the 



