cave, very blunt, smooth, or with a very few short silky hairs at the 
top. BracTEOL two, linear, brown, silky, inserted at the base of the 
calyx, and nearly as long as its divisions. Catyx thickly covered 
with long soft silky hairs, about five lines long, the tube short, the 
divisions twice as long as the tube, the two upper ones connected 
above the middle into an upper lip, all of them ending in a soft 
subulate point. STANpaRD twice as long as the calyx, of a purple 
red colour outside, yellow inside with a deep purple centre, in the 
middle of which, again, is a small yellow spot. Wunes scarcely longer 
than the calyx, purple, as well as the keel. Pop only seen in a very 
young state, when it is linear, several seeded, and excessively hairy. 
Poputar anD GeocrapHicaL Notice. This lovely papiliona- 
ceous genus consists, as far as yet known, but of two species, natives 
of the south western extremity of the Australian continent; both 
species having been transmitted by Mr. Drummond amongst his dried 
plants from Swan River, and the present one being also found in the 
neighbourhood of King George’s Sound. Their nearest botanical 
affinities are with Hovea and Bossiea, from both of which they differ 
in the forms of the calyx, in the pod (as far as can be judged from 
the very young one), and in the sheathing bracts at the base of the 
pedicels. In the latter character Lalage comes near Platylobium and 
Scottia, but the first of these differs much in the calyx and the latter in 
the corolla, and both by their opposite leaves. G. B. 
Inrropuction; WHERE Grown; Cutturr. This plant was 
raised about the year 1833, by Mr. Knight of the King’s Road, from 
seeds collected ae = William Bagster in the Pray. od 2 a pe of King 
George’s Sound. It appears to be rather Itt pe 
the aged = — agers for alttione? it forms a hand- 
, where 
our drawing was , sind: yet it is not known to have apiead: as yet, into 
other collections. It is to be hoped, however, that seeds of this as 
well as of the second species will be found amongst those recently 
received from Mr. Drummond; the colour of the flowers, rather 
unusual among Australian papilionacee, and their great abundance, 
rendering both species very desirable acquisitions to our gardens. 
It requires, we believe, a - we pene se in > greenhouse. 
DERIVATION 
LatacEe, named om: Dr. Lindley in festa oy a this celebrated by Horace. 
Ornata, adorned 
SyYNONYME. 
LatacE ornata. Lindley: Botanical Register, t. 1722, 
