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Fig. 1. represents a flower of Loudonia aurea, magnified, after three of the front stamens have been removed.

Fig. 2. is a section of the centre of the ovary, with two stigmas remaining, the two pendulous ovules, and the cord that separates them.

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The West coast of New Holland seems to be the headquarters of this natural order, to which the expression "nullibi copiosæ," recently applied to it, is no longer applicable; for at the Swan River they seem to form about one-fiftieth of the species. As the order is very little known, and as every addition to it is on that account interesting, it will be as well to notice here all the species of the Colony with which I have any acquaintance.

0f Phlebocarya there is one species, 195 a narrow-leaved sedgy plant, with dwarf panicles of small flowers, of no beauty.

Hæmodorum produces three, one of which is perhaps the same as the H. planifolium of Port Jackson, and the other

(195) lævis; foliis linearibus ensiformibus longissimis glabris, panuculâ nanâ, sepalis petalisque mox deflexis, ovulis apice alatis. 