228 Hems ley. — The Flora of 
the “ Wedding Flower,” was found sparingly in two or three 
situations. Of this seed-vessels only were obtained, but the 
flowers were described as being very beautiful. The leaves 
were upwards of six feet long, and from two to three inches 
in breadth. In appearance it resembles a large species 
of Moraea , \M. Robinsoniana] but will probably prove to 
be a new genus. 
‘ At the mouth of a creek or small rivulet, near the base 
of Mount Gower, Aegiceras fragrans was observed for the 
first and only time, although it is said that this or some 
other kind of Mangrove grows where another rivulet enters 
the sea. Along the coast on the northern side Crinum 
pedunculatum , Jurats maritimus , Rhagodia Billardierii , 
Senecio insular is, Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale , Ipomoea 
Pes-caprae , and Canavalia obtusifolia , occupied for the most 
part the sandy ridges raised by the wind from the beach. 
Curiously enough, on this, the warmest side of the island, 
the trees and shrubby plants appeared to suffer more from 
exposure to the sea than they did on the opposite or southern 
side. There, especially, Hibisats Pater sonii , Ochrosia elliptica , 
and Myoporum acuminatum , which, as has been before ob- 
served, constitute the principal part of the outer belt of tree 
vegetation, grew to be both good sized and well formed, 
whilst here they were reduced to a low-sized and nearly 
impenetrable scrub, the more so as they were usually inter- 
mixed with Guilandina Bonducella , a sub-climbing prickly 
shrub. In some parts of the interior, Verbena bonariensis , 
Ricinus communis , Solatium laciniatum , S one hits oleraceus , 
and other smaller kinds, evidently foreigners to the soil, had, 
from neglect, taken almost entire possession of fine tracts 
of cleared ground, and had become, in other parts, very 
troublesome weeds. 
‘ Two interesting arborescent Ferns (species of Alsophila) 
were observed in a small valley near the base of Mount 
Gower, growing in company with Alsophila excelsa. In 
of the Succulent House at Kew. It is between seven and eight feet high, and has 
about a dozen vigorous flower-stems. — W. Ii. H. 
