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“¢ whether any one has (viz. in 1810) ever been introduced 
‘into the English gardens, at least so as to bear flowers ; 
“for he thinks the figure in ‘ Paradisus Londinensis’ was 
“ done from a dried specimen. On this subject we have no 
“ particular information. Several drawings of this genus 
“and its allies, made in New Holland, have passed under — 
“our inspection, and display a degree of elegance which 
“‘ renders the plants highly desirable.. 
“ Of the twenty-one species, seventeen are hexandrous, 
“four triandrous.” Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loc. 
The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered 
in the greenhouse of the Horticultural Society, by which it 
is now first introduced into this country. : 
Native of the southern coast of New Holland \and of 
Van Diemen’s island; where the species was first observed 
by Mr. Ferdinand Bauer. 
Distinguished among its congeners, by a root of clus- 
tered bulbs, radical leaves about even with the. round 
smooth generally branchless stem, 4-5-flowered umbels, 
and anthers of the same length. 
We had no opportunity of examining the plant for de- 
scription, after it had been drawn. 
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