perianthiura: anthers 2 -lobed, the lobes divaricate. Pistil
seated on a white horn-like gland. Ovarium bearded at the
base, and smooth upwards. Style smooth and glossy, red, about
three-fourths of an inch in length. Stigma slightly bent backwards,
flattened, with a short conical raising in the centre.
Our drawing of the present beautiful species was made last
Spring at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay, at Clapton, but we believe
the species was first introduced to His Majesty’s Royal
Botanic Garden at Kew ; as it was discovered by Mr. A. Cunningham,
His Majesty’s Collector; on the banks of Cox’s
River; and is described by him in the Appendix to Barron
Field’s Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales, where he
mentions it as a plant of robust stoutish growth; the plant from
which our drawing was made, was about three feet high, and it
continued to flower nearly all the Summer; the flowers are of
the finest colour when the plant is out in the open air, the confinement
in the house making them paler. It is a hardy Greenhouse
Shrub, thriving well in a mixture of light turfy loam, peat,
and sand, and the pots should be well drained, that it may not
become sodden with too much moisture; ripened cuttings root
readily, planted under hand-glasses in sand, and to be shaded
from the sun.
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tohvea rSiutimgm sam. ooth but bearded at the base, terminated by the Style, and side view of