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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Hemodorace,®.-— Hexandria Monoyynia. 
Anigozanthos fuliginosa (Hooker). This plant is among the 
rarest of the genus yet found in Australia, and is thus noticed in 
conjunction with another species, A. pulcherrima , in a letter 
from Mr. Drummond, published in the ‘ London Journal of Bo¬ 
tany/ vol. iii, p. 263 : 
“ By a ship now about to sail, I send two fine species of Ani¬ 
gozanthos, collected by my son (since killed by the natives) in 
the vicinity of the Moore river. The dark-flowering one, A. fuli¬ 
ginosa, of which but two specimens have ever been found in 
bloom, is a real mourning flower , the upper portions of its stem 
and the lower portion of the corolla being covered, as it were, 
with black velvet; the corolla is deeply cleft and expands about 
two inches. The species is not allied to any other yet discovered 
in the Swan River settlement/’ 
The flower alone* independent of the curious sooty tomentum 
of the upper part of the plant, is indeed quite sufficient to dis¬ 
tinguish this species, being much deeper cleft, with far larger 
and longer lacinise, and longer filaments to the stamens than any 
known species. The flowers are borne in spikes on a dichoto- 
mously divided panicle; they are individually large, the upper 
portion lemon-coloured, the lower part and the ovary being 
covered with the same dense, dark red-brown or sooty-coloured 
tomentum as the panicle, but which gradually becomes more 
scattered and inconspicuous towards the upper portion of the 
flowers. The plant does not yet exist in our gardens, but we do 
not despair of seeing it ere long.— Bot. Mag . 4291. 
Bromeliace.e. —Hexandria Monogynia. 
AEchmea discolor (Hooker). A singularly attractive plant, 
from the rich coral red of the panicle, the flowers being of the 
same bright vermilion colour and the calyx tipped with black ; 
also from the great length of time the plant continues in blossom, 
through the whole of the winter months. The unexpanded buds 
have a most striking resemblance to well-known beads, commonly 
