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and was first introduced early in the present cen- 

 tury, but is little known, being rarely met with 

 until Messrs. Veitch brought it under notice by 

 recent importations. It is a stately growing species 

 with elegant flowers. Its cultural requirements will 

 be similar to others of this fine family, which thrive 

 under a brisk heat, with full light, and a fair amount 

 of moisture to the roots during the growing season, 

 but should be kept drier when at rest, with a somewhat 

 lower temperature. 



Bulb ovoid, two inches in diameter ; neck short. Leaves twenty 

 to thirty, contemporary with the flowers, spreading, one and a half 

 or two feet long at the flowering time, an inch broad, dark green, 

 much undulated at the edges. Scape slender, subterete, tinted with 

 purple, under a foot long. Umbel sessile, six to ten flowered ; 

 spathe-valves small, deltoid. Flower rotate, faintly scented, white, 

 tinted on the outside with purple ; perianth tube slender, five or 

 six inches long ; limb half as long as the tube ; segments a third 

 to half an inch broad. Stamens arcuate, shorter than the perianth 

 limb ; filaments bright red ; anthers half an inch long. Style bright 

 red; stigma minute, capitate. — Botanical Magazine, 6525. 



Stylidium saxifeagoides. Lindley. A beauti- 

 ful little greenhouse herbaceous plant, with lemon-coloured 

 flowers. Belongs to the order of Styleworts. Native of 

 Swan River. Introduced by Messrs. Yeitch and Co. (Fig. 

 89.) 



This charming greenhouse plant, raised from seeds from the Swan 

 River Settlement, was sent by Messrs. Veitch and Sons of Exeter to 

 the May Exhibition of the Horticultural Society for 1850, under the 

 name of S. ciliatum. That plant, however, is a very different though 

 nearly allied species, with the panicle compound, and, as well as the 

 scaly scape, clothed with long patent hairs, tipped with dark-coloured 

 viscid glands, and with flowers not half the size of the present one. 

 Root perennial, dividing at the crown so as to bear copious rosettes of 

 densely imbricated, spreading, linear leaves, slightly incurved, yellow- 

 green tinged with purple, tapering at the base, acute at the point, and 

 there bearing a long hair or bristle ; the margins espejially roughly 

 fringed. Scapes one or more from the centre of each rosette, a span 

 or more high, quite smooth (except above), and there, and upon the 

 flower-stalks and ovary, calyx and outside of the corolla, are copious, 

 short, glandular hairs. Flower-stalks with two glandular, oblong, red 

 bracts above the middle. Ovary oblong, green, crowned with the 

 oblong red lobes of the calyx. Corolla large (for the size of the plant), 

 yellow. 



As regards their habit and places of growth, Styleworts may be 

 compared to species of several British genera ; such as Statice, 

 Jasione, Pliyteuma, Plantago, Samolns, and even Droscra. This spe- 

 cies is a native of Swan River, and must be treated as a greenhouse 

 plant ; it requires no more artificial heat than is necessary topi-otect 

 it from frost, and like many other small plants, it will thrive best when 

 kept in a cool pit or frame ; but care must be taken that it does not 

 suffer from damp in winter. Light peat soil is found to suit it — Bot. Mag, 



t. 4529. 



