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NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



1. SwAMMERDAMiA ANTEXNARiA. Ue Caudolle, Prodfomus, 

 vol. vi. p. 164. 



This is a small compact evergreen bush, not at present more 

 than 3 feet higli. It has angular viscid shoots, and a foliage 

 the colour of Euonymus 

 japonicus. The leaves 

 are at the largest not 

 more than an inch long, 

 and generally smaller, 

 obovate, apiculate, or 

 perfectly blunt, veinless, 

 concave, with a little 

 mealiness on the under 

 side when young. The 

 flower-heads are small, 

 white, and collected in 

 little lateral corymbose 

 panicles. 



It is found wild in Van 

 Diemen's Land, on the 

 sides of Mount Welling- 

 ton, where it flowers in 

 the months of January, 

 February, and March. 

 The late Professor De 

 Caiidolle gave it its name, 

 in allusion to the form 

 of the pai^pus, which lie 

 thought resembled the 

 antennae of an insect, a 

 very obscure peculiaritJ^ 



A hai'ily evergreen 

 small shrub, growing 

 freely in any common 

 garden soil, and easily 

 increased by cuttings in 

 the usual way. Its clusters of small flowers add little to its 

 beauty, which is confined to the foliage. 



Jime 17, 1848. 



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