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of a delicate whitish and yellowish green, and is in the collection of the London 

 Horticultural Society, but its origin is not known. It is distinguished from E. 

 Eyresii in having the angles much acute, and less wavy ; the spines are longer, 

 more slender, and the tube of the flower is shorter, green, and free from the long 

 coarse ash-coloured shagginess which distinguished the above species. The flowers 

 sweet-scented, and appear in July. Bot. Reg. N. S. 



COMPOSITE. 



Pan/etia fulva. Lindl. Tawny Pansetia. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 47. A beau- 

 tiful little annual plant with the habit of Gnaphalium, introduced from the 

 Swan River by R. Mangles, Esq. It flowered in May, 1838, and differs from 

 P. Lessonii in the shape of the involucral scales, in the number of the setse of the 

 pappus, and in being a larger plant covered all over with cobweb-like hoariness. 

 The flower-heads are of the red gold colour of Helichrysum bracteatum, dry, 

 like many of the everlasting flowers ; and although small, pretty. Bot. Reg. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 



BROMELIACEiK 



Bkomelia discolor. Lindl. Two-coloured Bromelia. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 48. 

 This is a rare South American stove plant, from whence it was received by Miss 

 Garnier of Wickham, near Southampton, and in whose collection it lately 

 flowered. It has spiny heads of dull pink flowers, which change to brown, and 

 is not handsome. B. longifolia, Rudge, seems to be its nearest ally ; but differs, 

 as may be seen by the long character given by Dr. Lindley, in the long tube of 

 the corolla, and the long simple stigmas. Bot. Reg. 



ASPHODELEiE . 



Bulbine suavis. Lindl. A pretty greenhouse plant, found by Major Mit- 

 chell, the indefatigable Surveyor General of New South Wales, in his last 

 journey into the interior of New Holland in 1836. It resembles Bulbine Annua 

 in the tint of its yellow flowers, but they are much larger, are arranged in a 

 long raceme, and diffuse a delicious fragrance resembling that of Mignionette. 

 The scape is between two and three feet high. It flowered in the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society, May, 1838. The roots were dug up in the rich 

 plains of Austria Felix in 1836. Bot. Reg. 



AMARYLLlDACEiE. 



Elisene longipetala. Lindl. Long-petalled Elisene. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 45. 

 This is nearly related to Pancratium rigens, out of which Mr. Herbert has made 

 the above genus. It is a native of Peru. It was obtained by Richard Harrison, 

 Esq., of Aighburgh, near Liverpool, and it blossomed in the stove of that gen- 

 tleman in May, 1838. The leaves are much like those of an Amancaes ; the 

 flowers are of a delicate semitransparent white, and are remarkable for their 



