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GASTROLOBIUM SPINOSUM, 
From the original plant, which flowered profusely with Mr Young for the first 
time last March, we were courteously permitted to make the annexed representation. 
Although flowers have never been disclosed before the present year, the prodi- 
gality of their production, in every case we have witnessed, justify us in considering 
it as a free-flowering and highly ornamental species. At Ealing Park, Mr. 
Robertson had a number of small plants just raised from cuttings, completely 
laden with blossoms. These had been kept in a warm house ; and we have no 
doubt that the flowering, and indeed the health and vigorous growth of most 
New Holland plants, will always be vastly improved by the application of a 
little additional warmth in the early spring months when the shoots are tender. 
The name of the genus is a combination of two Greek words gaster^ the belly, 
and lohos^ a pod, alluding to the distension of the legume. The marginal spines 
of the leaf have suggested the specific term. 
