South-west Australia, and which, during the spring and 

 summer months, is richly studded by the orange-yellow 

 flowers, arising from the copious, short branches, and back- 

 ed by the dark-green foliage, which spreads in a stellated 

 manner all around them. This is one of the many noble 

 Proteace^e which forms so striking a feature in the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens of Kew, and to which those recently sent 

 over by Mr. Drummond from the Swan River constitute so 

 valuable an addition. 



Descr. A tree, with a crooked trunk, and clothed with 

 spreading, much divided branches almost to the base. 

 Leaves copious on the short branchlets, spreading, four to 

 six inches long, harsh, rigid, subcoriaceous, linear-elon- 

 gate, pinnatifid for two-thirds of the way to the costa, the 

 segments acute, triangular, but unequally so, the upper 

 side being generally nearly at right angles with the costa, 

 dark-green above, almost glossy, white with short down 

 beneath. Heads of flowers nestled among the leaves at the 

 apex of the short branches, sessile, rather large, globose, of 

 a yellow-orange colour, but not very bright. Involucre of 

 many oblong, recurved scales. Receptacle with copious, 

 linear scales and hairs. Perianth villous, especially below, 

 cut almost to the base into four extremely narrow, linear 

 segments, spathulateat the apex and concave, in which the 

 linear anther is lodged on a very short filament. Style 

 longer than the perianth. Stigma clubbed, slightly hairy. 



Fig. 1. Flower: — magnified. 



