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eautiful, especially as the stalks, and more particularly the peduncles and pedicels, flower-bud, calyx, and b 
d a blood-red colour, and are covered with a bluish bloom. The flowers are bright scarlet. The plant belongs to da 
division of the genus which has a bifid upper lip, as in Canna speciosa, discolor, occidentalis, compacta, carnea, & 
—Allgem. Gartenzeit., 
Sept. 13, 1851. 
507. OLEARIA 
pannosa. Hooker. 
A half-hardy ever- 
green shrub, native 
of New Holland. 
Belonging to the 
Order of Composites. 
Flowers white. In- 
(Fig. is ) 
notice of 
this he is to be found 
in Sir W. Hooker’s 
Ie 1 t 
Pere A are pure 
ellow 
die sis whole plant 
is covered with a close 
white felt, except the 
upper side ofthe leaves, 
the Canary Island Chry- 
santhemums, 
508. BEGONIA 
CONCHJEFOLIA. Die- 
trich. A stove per- 
