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4 inches, limb 2|, or less. Purchased by me at 
Mr. Evans’s sale above twenty years ago. Local 
habitation not ascertained, but evidently belonging 
to the Australian family, which extends into the 
islands of the Pacific. Amongst the loftiest of the 
genus. 
Var. 4. Canaliculatum. — Roxburgh. Bot. Mag. 47. 
2121. p. 5. Columna 9-10-unc. pallida vix pur- 
purascente, foliis 3s pedalibus arcuatioribus, scapo 
16-26 unc. pedunc. uncial, vel ultra, germine 
crasso i-unc. tubo 21-21 unc. limbo 3i-'3b unc. 
stylo nunc brevissimo, nunc Is tubum superante, 
saepissime filamentis f unc. breviore, filamentis 1| 
limbo brevioribus. The shortest of the family 
with leaves acute and more arched, with a shorter 
tube and longer limb 1 purchased two bulbs of 
it at Mr. Evans’s sale, and have freely distributed 
seedlings from them, but have never known it since 
imported. Precise local habitation not ascertained. 
It appears evident that these four natives of Australia and 
the extreme south-east, although they preserve their peculi- 
arities when raised from seed, may be conveniently united 
under one general title, preserving the subordinate names to 
distinguish them. I saw a few years ago a variety in flower 
at Colvill’s nursery, which seemed to exceed them all in 
general stature, and in the size of the flowers, but I did not 
make any memorandum concerning it, and I cannot say with 
certainty whether it differed materially, but I believe not. It 
was there called, from its large stature, a white Amabile, but 
I could not learn from whence it had been received. I con- 
sidered it to have belonged to the Australian family, and to 
have perhaps found its way there from Kew. If it be forth- 
coming, and has triovular cells like the rest, it may be called 
Australe, Maximum, var. 5. The illiberal system esta- 
blished at Kew Gardens by Sir Joseph Banks, whereby the 
rare plants collected there were hoarded with the most nig- 
gard jealousy, and kept as much as possible out of the sight 
of any inquirer, led in the first instance to a feeling of satis- 
faction, whenever it was known that the garden had been 
plundered, and some of its hidden treasures brought into 
circulation ; and the indifference with which such thefts 
were regarded, if they were not actual! v winked at, by 
