in front, near tlie toj) pale greenish yellow, everywhere else colour¬ 
less. Antoer-lobes elliptical, deflected, [)laced end to end in the 
direction of the column, along the mesial line before expansion brown¬ 
ish ; pollen yellow. Stigma green. Germen bilocular in the lower 
half septum imperfect in the upjjer. Receptacle central, ovules nu¬ 
merous. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. The singular, and in 
many instances, beautiful genus Stylidium, is in a great measure con¬ 
fined to New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land. A very few species 
have been found elsewhere, but they seem to be very numerous in 
tliose colonies, and to be scattered widely from within the tropics to the 
southern shores. The late researches, by Baron Hugel, Mr. Ander¬ 
son, and Mr. Drummond especially, show that above all they abound 
at the Swan River Settlement. Of the few yet in our gardens, per¬ 
haps not one is more worthy of cultivation than the present, and not 
one has the flowers so large. Its nearest affinity certainly is with 
Stylidium pilosurn of Labellardier, but the flowers are in his plate 
small, and the inflorescence a simple or a compound raceme, and the 
general accuracy of his figure is confirmed to me by specimens collected 
at King George’s Sound, and which I many years since received from 
the late Mr. Fraser, colonial botanist. The remarkable irritability of 
the column exists here as probably in all the species of the genus. 
The total misunderstanding of the parts of the flower in Stylidium by 
many of the older botanists, which deforms their accounts of the genus, 
W 0 .S long since corrected by Brown. 
Introduction 5 Where grown; Culture. This species was 
raised by Mr. Low, of Clapton, from seeds transmitted from Swan River, 
by Mr. Drummond, and a plant was obligingly sent by Mr. Low from 
his extensive collection to the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, in Octo° 
her, 1839. It came into blossom in the greenhouse there in Novem« 
her, 1840, having been planted in a mixture of peat, sand, and a little 
loam, and exposed to free ventilation on the shelf of the back >Yall, 
the glass being drawn down so as to leave the plant altogether uncov¬ 
ered during the day, even while the frost was sharp in the shade. 
Each blossom remains expanded during several weeks, and coming 
slowly in succession, the plant is kept in perfection for a very long 
period, the last flower having scarcely faded in the middle of March. 
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