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Description uf several New or Rare Plants ichich have flowered 

 in the neighbourlkood of Edinburgh, and chiefly in the Roijnl 

 Botanic Garden., during the last three months. 



mth June 1829. 

 Acacia verniciflua. 



A. verniciflua ; pliyllodiis lineari-laiiceolatis. 2-nervis, falcatis, basi atte- 

 nuatis, margine superiore ad basin uniglandulosis, ramisque juiiiori- 

 bus viscidis ; capitulis globosis, axillaribus, geininatis. 

 Acacia verniciflua, Cunningham, in Field's Memoirs on New S. Wales, 

 p. 344. 

 Description. — Shrub erect, brancliing. Brmwhes slender, sjjreading, green 

 viscid and angular when young, when older red and scabrous. Phy!- 

 fodia (3 inches long, 4^ lines broad,) falcate upwards, 2-nerved, and slight- 

 ly veined, one of the nerves passing nearly in the middle, the other to- 

 wards the upper edge, scabrous and shining, when old dull green, when 

 young bright green and viscid, nniglandular on the upper edge at the 

 base. Capitvla globidar axillary, geminate, pedicelled, spreading ; pe- 

 duncles (3 lines long) articulated at the base, filiform, tomentous ; when 

 a branch pushes from between the capitula, these sometimes take their 

 origin from it, a little way above its base, and ai'e opposite. Flowers 

 yellow, numerous in each capitulum, sessile, crowded, each rising 

 from the axil of a minute, brown, spalhulate, ciliated bractea. Ca. 

 lyx sub-adpressed, minute, 5.cleft, as long as the bractea;, segments 

 blunt, slightly' tomentous. Cm-olla (y'^th of an inch long) twice as long 

 as the cal^'X, 5-cleft, segments linear, acute, spreading, and concave at 

 the apex, smooth. Stamens very numerous, arising from the base of the 

 corolla, of deeper yellow than it or the calyx ; filaments half as long 

 again as the coroUa ; anthers small, bilobular, orange coloured. Stigma 

 minute, style projecting a little beyond the stamens, lateral. Germen 

 small, green, oblong. Ovulce numerous. 

 This species was raised from seeds received at the Botanic Garden from 

 Mr Frazer, colonial botanist. New South Wales, in 1825, under the 

 name of ^. verjioia, and has received the ordinary treatment in the green- 

 house. It flowers freely in March and April. Judging from the cha- 

 racter given by Mr Cunningham, in the work above quoted, I do not see 

 any reason to doubt that it is his A. verniciflua. which he says is a native 

 of Rocky Hills, near Cox's River, &c. and was first collected in 1817 by 

 him during Mr Oxley's expedition. 



Andromeda hypnoides. 



A.hppnoides; pedunculis solitariis unifloris, terminalibus ; corolla cam- 

 panulata, S-fida, laciniis obtusis, conniventibus ; stylo ovato, acumi- 

 nate ; foliis imbricatis, j)lure seriatis, erectis, subulatis. 

 Andromeda foliis aciformibus confertis, Linn. Fl. Lappon. 165. t. 1. f. 3. 

 Andromeda hypnoides, Linn. Fl. Suecic. 355.; Sp. PI. i. 563 — JVilld. ii. 



COS Fl. Danica, 1. 10 Persoon, i. 480. — Wahlenberc), Fl. Suecic. 450. 



— Sprengel, Syst. Veget. ii. 289 — Hort. Kew. iii. 51. 



Description Stem procumbent, much branched, every where covered 



Avith leaves. Leaves imbricated, erect, minuteh' pubescent, ciliated, subu- 

 late, flat above, rounded below. Peduncles (3 lines long) terminal, so- 

 litary, 1-flowered, red. Flowers drooping. Calyj; 5-parted, red, sub- 

 acute. Corolla pure v hite, when, as in the specimens here described, 

 raised under glass, but said to be reddish in native specimens, campanu- 

 late, 5.clfft, segments rounded, but having a minute mucro, and slightly 



