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attached. Capsule oblong, the placentas adnate to the apex of the 
valves. Seeds very numerous, striate, of a deep golden yellow, oblong, 
ovate to somewhat fusiform. 
: Hab.: Fraser Island, Hon. Miss Lovell. # 
careful examination of the above plant, I find it only to differ from 
other varieties or forms in its deep-coloured foliage and white flowers. It -was found 
y soil, in company with another small variety of the species, and 
which I think probable is Robt. Brown’s X. pusilla. This has the same deep- 
coloured leaves, but the flowers are yellow. 
Order AROIDEZE. 
Trisr PYTHONIE. 
AMORPHOPHALLUS, Blume. 
A. Galbra (n. sp.) Leaf solitary, expanding to a diameter of over 
2ft. Petioles mottled; about 2 ft. high, with 2 membranous sheathing 
scales, branching at the top into 3 bifurcate limbs which are 
pinnate below the first fork, the ultimate branches pinnatifid, divided 
el, joining in an inter-marginal one rather distant from the edge. 
Seape about 26 in. long, mottled, somewhat resembling the markings 
of the carpet snake. Spatha about 11 in. long and about 13 1. broad 
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a narrow terminal appendage of a yellow colour, mottled and slightly 
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“« Barron River, and known, according to Mr. E. Cowley, by the ere? 
ra, is a very showy plant and well worthy of ganden culture, am 
flowers are described as delightfully fragrant. 
Order RESTIACEZ. 
LEPYRODIA, BR. Br. 
L. scari R. Br.; Flora Austr, vii. 215. Rhizome cree, 
ing. Stems erect, terete, glabrous, 1 to 4 ft. high. Sheathing scale 
brown, loose, often above 1 in. | ng, and in some luxuriant specimens 
over 2 in., the upper ones with short points. Inflorescence ® eee 
ale-brown thyrsoid panicle, with short unequal erect branches, the 
ower ones often distant, the others more crowded. ts unde 
lower branches rigid with long points, und upper branches 
smaller, broader, and more scarious. Flowers sessile or shortly pedi 
rudiment of the ovary, female with slender staminodia.—Ben™. © 
Hab.: Stradbroke Island. : 
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