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frame during the winter. Beinga uM species, it did not ripen its seeds, but, like the allied species of the 
genus, it may be increased by euttings.— Bot. Mag 
484. DRYANDRA NOBILIS. Lindley. ipe D. runcinata Meisner.) A very pretty dwarf 
evergreen shrub, with bright yellow flower-heads. Native of Swan River. Belongs to Proteads. 
Reared from seeds sent by Mr. Drummond from the Swan River settlement. We can scarcely doubt its being the 
D. nobilis of Lindley, and of the Plante Preissiane ; yet our flowering plant, in May, 1851, was considered by Dr. 
spongioles of the roots, and the plant flags and dies.— Bot. Mag., t. 4633. [We confirm Sir William Hooker’s determination 
of this plant, which appears to differ in nothing from the original specimens of D. nobilis now before us 
485. BEGONIA BULBILLIFERA. 
& Otto. A beautiful little stove eux 
ceous plant, with large rose-coloured 
flowers. Belongs to Begoniads. Native 
of Mexico. Introduced by the Berlin 
Garden. (Fig. 241.) 
This is one of the beautiful bulbous Begonias, 
which are far more rare those with per- 
manent stems, or fleshy rhizomes. The stem is 
downy. The first leaves are heart-shaped, 
roundish, scarcely unequal-sided, crimson beneath; 
nearly an inch long, oblong ; the two inner much 
smaller ; all are deep rose-coloured. The males 
and females are alike ; the ovary is acutely trian- 
The plant grew out of the earth in which 
