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smooth, rigid, pungent-pointed, 1 to 3 in. long. Flowers in sessile 
axillary clusters. Pedicels short, densely villous. Perianth glabrous, 
the tube about 3 lines long, revolute under the globular limb. Ovary 
contracted into a very short stipes; style not long, with an oblique * 
stigmatic disk. Fruit ovoid-globular, oblique, about 1 in. diameter, 
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valves with small dorsal horns near the end. Seed-wing narrowly 
hs Ue. 
Hab,: Moreton Island, J. F. Shirley. Fraser Island, Hon, Miss Lovell. 
Order AMARYLLIDEA. 
Trins AGAVE. 
DORYANTHES, Corr. 
Gardens, in recognition of his untiring zeal in creating a taste for the 
cultivation of Australian plants.) This species differs from those 
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already recorded, in its larger size an the r of its flowers. 
The leaves attain a length of 9 feet with a breadth of over 8 in., the 
flower-stem a height of over 15 ft., t If of which is occupied by 
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an intense vermilion colour, and while larger than those of 
e of D. excelsa. 
The various forms of this plant are of so showy a character that they at once 
recommend themselves as garden plants. Therefore, although to the botanist they 
cannot be considered more than varieties of the one species D. excelsa, Corr., a8 
> to th . 
rescence of D. Larkeni, D. Palmeri,and D. Guilfoylei all gir elongstet aay 
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a and so far differ from each other in the colour of bloom as to be re 
guishable. 
Hab.: Near the Burdekin River, from whence seeds were taken to Melbourne 
‘ohiss Were sown in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, and the object of the present 
is the first plant of those raised which has bloomed. 
Order XYRIDEZ. 
a XYRIS, Linn. 
Pauciflora, var. albifios (u. var.) Plant from all appear 
(n. : 
nual. Leaves in radical tufts somewhat crimson-coloured, 
hes (028) the scales brown with a few hairs at the top, and 
argins. Bracteoles thin, of lighter colour, an htly 
Perianth white, segments ovate-lanceolate. Anthers rather 
filaments not quite so long as the anther and twisted, dorsally 
