fruit, Mr. Brown pronounced the plant to belong to the genus 
Stenocarpus. For fine flowering specimens I am indebted, in 
August, 1847, to the kindness of Messrs. Weeks and Day, from 
, the greenhouse of the ‘ United Gardeners’ Society’, King’s Road, 
Chelsea, and I learn from Mr. Makowski of that establishment, 
that its blossoming is considered to be owing to the plant having 
been much cut in for the purpose of increase.* The handsome 
evergreen, glossy foliage, has, indeed,’/long recommended this 
plant to the attention of cultivators, and now that its beautiful 
inflorescence is known, there can be little doubt but the demand 
for it will be in proportion to its loveliness. Mr. Smith remarks 
that it is a robust growing plant, and’ not, like many of the Pro- 
teacee, apt to die off suddenly. ) 
‘Dascr. Plant, constituting a small tree 16 feet and more high, 
with a'slender ¢rwnk, branched, and bearing the ample and glossy 
evergreen foliage at the extremities of the branches. Leaves 
alternate, one to two feet in length, obovato-lanceolate, petiolate, 
obtuse, entire or sinuated, lobed and pinnatifid, penninerved, 
the segments oblong, obtuse, everywhere entire and glabrous. — 
Flowers umbellate : umbel compound, peduncled, lateral from an 
old branch, or sometimes terminal; in the umbel before us 
consisting of five rays, of which four are in a whorl, horizontal 
(as respects the axis), the fifth central and vertical, terete, clothed 
with deciduous golden down, articulated upon the main rachis: 
the extremity curved downwards and the very apex dilated into a 
flattened and angled disc, the edge of which bears about thirteen 
or fourteen partial rays or pedicels of the umbel, radiating like _ 
the spokes of a wheel and with the most perfect regularity, all 
inclining a little upwards, each bearing a single downy flower and 
spreading almost exactly horizontally, all on the same plane. 
Before expansion the perianth is club-shaped, tawny- or golden- 
green, the underside of the club, or head, yellow-green. The 
mode of expansion of the five linear-clavate sepals is very curious 
and adds greatly to the beauty of the flower, when all are alike 
expanded. ‘The colour within is a most brilliant orange-scarlet, 
the pistil the same, the clubbed (or rather spathulate) apices of 
the sepals and the large stigmas only being a golden yellow. 
At first the three outer segments of each flower become deflexed, 
all hanging down around, and at a certain distance from, the axis, 
resembling the deflexed ray of some splendid composite plant: 
and at the same time the pistil suddenly becomes bent in the 
_* The great heat and much sun of the present season have also no doubt con- 
tributed to the flowering of Stenocarpus Cunninghami ; for while this sheet 18 0 
the press, I learn from Dr. Balfour, who has obligingly sent a specimen, that it 
has blossomed in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, and also at the Birmingham 
Botanic Garden, under the care of Mr. Cameron. 
