NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 101 



Eutaxia myrtifolia. — Neat lance-shaped foliage, flowers yellow, 

 with red eye and keel ; blooms profusely. Pretty. 



Bosslea linophylla. — Pretty narrow leaves; flowers bright yellow, 

 with red eye ; profuse bloomer. Very showy and neat. 



Platylobium formosum. — Bright yellow inside, red outside, nearly 

 an inch across. Pretty. 



Pulten^ea polygalifolia. — Bright yellow, half an inch across ; 

 neat small foliage. Very pretty. 



Bosslea cordi folia. — Pale yellow, with a dark keel, and neat 

 small heart-shaped leaves. Very pretty. 



Goodia PCBESCENS. — Bright yellow, with a dark eye and neat small 

 foliage ; blooms very profusely. 



Gastrolobium sfinosum. — A deep orange-yellow, with a dark 

 crimson keel. Very pretty. 



The above Pea-formed flowering plants are neat and shrubby, and 

 very distinct from each other. They bloom very freely, and for a long 

 period ; also can be procured at a trifling cost. 



Zichia tricolor. — A neat twining plant, covering a wire-frame 

 four feet high, and most profusely in bloom. Its numerous large heads 

 of flowers, orange, scarlet, and yellow colours in each blossom, have a 

 beautiful effect. 



Boronia denticulata. — Flowers a pale lilac and purple shade, 

 half an inch across, pretty ; as was B. primata, with its pretty pink 

 flowers ; and B. micro phylla, with its flowers, white inside and pink 

 outside ; its small neat foliage added to its beauty. Each flower nearly 

 an inch across. 



Westringia erimecola. — The flower is somewhat of the shape of 

 a Schizanthus pinnatus, an inch across, white, tinged with lavender, 

 borne in profusion ; the leaves are small. It is a neat shrubby plant. 



Struthiola stricta. — Neat plant, small foliage, flowers white, in 

 spikes, and every shoot has a spike of them. Pretty. 



Templktonia glauca. — Each flower an inch and a-half long, pea- 

 shaped, a deep red. 



Zuria lanceolata. — Leaves small, three-lobed, and the shrub is 

 very neat and compact in growth ; four feet high. The flowers are 

 about the size of the Plum blossoms, white, and produced in such pro- 

 fusion that the plant is covered with them. Very neat and pretty. 



Phyllanthes calycinus. — A neat shrub, with small oval leaves. 

 Each blossom, six petals, half an inch across, greenish white. Singular 

 and neat ; blooms profusely. 



Prosthanthera rotundifolia. — Each flower is in form like a 

 small Gloxinia, nearly an inch long, of a pretty lilac, borne in pro- 

 fusion, and foliage small. A neat pretty blooming shrub. P. violac ea, 

 too, was in bloom ; the flowers less, and not so pretty as the former. 



Linum flavum. — Its bright yellow flowers, an inch across, produced 

 in profusion on dwarf plants, are very pretty. 



Bkaufortia decussata. — A neat plant, small foliage, and its fine 

 crimson thread tasselled-like flowers have a fine appearance. 



Thopjeolum tricolorum. — A large plant, in fine bloom. Truly 

 admirable. 



