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hypnoides Heer, Dammara microlepis Heer, and a species of 
wus. The genus Dammara is represented in our living flora 
by D. inal Lamb., the well-known “Kauri” gum tree of 
Austra 
ArtHur HOo.ticx, 
THE FLOWERING OF NOLINA TEXANA. 
e plant from which the accompanying illustration was made 
was secured by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, in 1902, near Austin, 
‘Texas, the locality from which this species, Wolina Texana S 
Wats., was originally described. This o flowered at the con- 
servatories the middle of the past month, and eens rather 
an unusual sight among the other ce in house 
The leaves are long and narrow, of a bright Rete green, 
thick, convex on the back and slightly concave on the upper 
surface, the margins decidedly roughened ; they are about three 
feet long and a little exceeding one eighth inch in ‘width, rather 
abruptly broadened at the yellowish base, and very lax, so that 
their upper portions fall over and lie on the ground, covering in 
wild state, so I am informed by the collector, quite an area in 
the neighborhood of the plant. From the midst of this mass of 
leaves arises the flower stalk, to the height of a foot or two (in the 
specimen here under consideration barely reaching the former 
measurement); this, in our plant, bears a panicle of nearly 
white flowers, os branches bearing the flowers arising from much 
longer bracts which are drawn out into long tails, The bracts, 
axis of the panicle, and the flower buds are white, eagk flushed 
with rose, these forming a pretty combination with the fully 
expanded flowers, in which the segments are strongly oe 
or almost revolute, and white, with a faint blush of rose on the 
inner s ; the stamens with their bright yellow anthers 
greatly oe the effect. The contrast of the — flowers 
with the bright green graceful leaves is quite 
The genus Molina, belonging to the lily ane ae the 
arid or semi-arid regions of the southwest, ranging, in its ten or 
