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ANIGOZANTHUS flavida; var, bicolor 



Two-coloured yellow-haired Anigozanthus 



IIEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. H^MODORACE^. 



ANIGOZANTHUS. Bot. Reg. vol. 23. fol. 2012 



A. flavida. 



A., flavida. Suprd t. 37. cum synonymis. 



Var. bicolor ; foliis latioribus, panicula ramosisslmd, 



tubo viridi. 



ovarlo coccineo, perianthil 



This is the plant alluded to at plate 37 of this volume, as 

 a strikingly beautiful variety of the whole-coloured A. flavida; 

 and it will now be seen to deserve the particular notice of 

 the cultivators of ornamental plants. 



Scarlet and green are by no means often intermingled in 

 the flowers of plants ; and when they are, the union is not 

 always agreeable. In this instance, however, the two are so 

 harmoniously blended and softened together, that a singu- 

 larly rich effect is the result. It would appear to be the 

 property of the other species of this genus to vary thus, for 

 I have wild specimens of A. Manglesii, for which I am in- 

 debted to Captain James Mangles and Mr. Andrew Toward, 

 of which one is all green, and the other two-coloured, as in 

 its common garden state. 



The panicle of this plant is much more divaricating than 



iQ A. flavida, and that character might have been looked 



upon as suflicient to entitle it to rank as a distinct species, 



had it been accompanied by any other difference besides 



that of colour; but I have sought in vain for any further 

 peculiarity. 



Beceniber, 1838. . 2 



