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the Tillandsia psittacina , Hooker, notwithstanding some slight 
discrepancies in the character. The leaves are a span or more 
long, canaliculate, very concave at the base, the margin entire, 
dark green, marked with black transverse bands. The scape 
rises from the centre of the leaves, a foot and a half long, (in¬ 
cluding the spike,) green with black spots, and is terminated by 
a compact, bright red, glossy spike of numerous lanceolate, 
pointed, and carinate, closely imbricated bracts, each including 
a single white flower, which is longer than the bract, cylin¬ 
drical, curved, soon withering, and composed of three oblong, 
erect sepals, and an equal number of linear spathulate petals, six 
stamens rather longer than the petals, and a filiform style still 
longer.— Bot. Mag. 4382. 
Melastomace^e. —Becandria Monogynia. 
Tetrazygia eleagnoides (Swartz). A West Indian plant, with 
the branches subterete, and they and the petioles, and peduncles, 
calyx and underside of the leaf, silvery and whitish, or pale 
brownish green. The flowers are white, with broad yellow 
anthers, and are borne on a terminal many-flowered panicle. It 
was raised at Sion House, from Jamaica seeds.-— Bot. Mag. 
4383. 
LeguminostE. —'Polygamia Polyandria. 
Acacia argyrophylla (Hooker). This species is one of the 
many novelties sent by Mr. Drummond from the Swan River 
Settlement, and is no less beautiful in the foliage (phyllodia) 
than in its copious large heads of deep yellow flowers. The 
phyllodia are like the leaves of Podalyria sericea, everywhere 
clothed with a glossy silky cobweb, in the young leaves partaking 
of a yellow tint. The globular flower-heads are solitary or 
racemed; the racemes usually shorter than the leaves, and, being 
abundant on the upper parts of the branches, are very showy. 
The plant flowers in April.— Bot. Mag. 4384. 
Trop^ole ^.—Octandria Monogynia. 
Tropccolum Smithii (De Candolle). Another very elegant and 
distinct species of Tropceolum i for the introduction of which to 
our gardens we are indebted to Messrs. Yeitch and Son, and to 
their indefatigable collector William Lobb. It is a native of 
