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or greenhouse plant in the Show. It was the centre attraction amongst 
the plants, and many were the admiring comments passed upon so 
well-grown a specimen. In height it was over 5 feet from the pet, 
i The plant is one of Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons’ novelties of about 
' fourteen years ago, being obtained from Halan and Strong Island, one 
i of the Caroline group in the Pacific Ocean, and was discovered by Mr 
Fig. 7.—1XOR.4. DUFFl. 
busily in habit, and olotlied witn iw long dark leaves down to the rim 
o£ the pot, whilst it was bearing twenty huge globular trusses of its 
brQiiant flowers. As an exhibition plant it could not be surpassed, and 
it is very distinet from aU the other species and varieties in cultivation. 
Dull, one of the stafil attached to the Sydney Botanic Garden to whicii 
place it was first introduced, and thence it was sent to this country by 
Mr. Charles Moore. 
The flowers are n the style of I. salioifolia. the trusses being ver\ 
