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ISOPOGON* formósus. 
Handsome Isopogon. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PROTEACER. 
ISOPOGON.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 900. 
I. formosus ; foliis. bipinnatifidis subtriternatis filiformibus suprà canalicu- 
latis : laciniis divaricatis, ramulis tomentosis, perianthiis glabris: laminis 
apice pilosiusculis. — R. Brown-.in Linn. trans. 10. 72. Prodr. 1. 
366. &c. N y 
Frutex rigidus, ramosus, ramis murinis : vetustis nudiusculis, junioribus 
sericeo-villosis.  Folia-Sepiús-triternatay dura, teretia, pungentia, suprà 
sulcata, glabra, laciniis divaricatis. Capitulum subsessile, terminale, foliis 
involucratum. Squame obovate, cuspidate, extús lanate. Calyx mox 
deciduus, tubo gracili glabro, limbo quadrifido, laciniis spatulatis, pur- 
pureis, apice extremo villosis, intús antheriferis, infra antheras bicallosis. 
Ovarium villosissimum ; stylus filiformis, apice biarticulatus, articulo infe- 
riore luteo, pubescente, clavato, superiore ovato, elongato, glabro, ad apicem 
stigmatifero. 
This, the most beautiful of its genus, is said to have 
been introduced so long since as the year 1805 to the 
Kew Garden. As far, however, as the public is concerned, 
the date of its introduction may be more properly fixed in 
1824, when it was raised by Mr. Mackay, from seeds col- 
lected in the neighbourhood of Lucky Bay, by Mr. Baxter, 
on his first visit to the west coast of New Holland. It is 
right, that in all questions about the period at which plants 
have been introduced, this distinction should be borne in 
mind, and that the world should be aware that the intro- 
* From ices, equal, and rey», a beard; so named because the long 
hairs of the fruit are placed equally all over it, and do not arise from one 
side only, as in the neighbouring genus Petrophila. 
