Tab. 4291 . 
ANIGOZANTHOS fuliginosa. 
Sooty Aniyozanthos. 
Nat. Ord. HEMODOKACEiE. — Hexandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Tab. 4180.) 
Anigozanthos fuliginosa', caule angulato elato superne paniculato, iDfeme 
foUisque eequitantibus lineari-acuminatis subfaleatis striatis glaberrimis, 
spicis paniciilatis secundifloris, pedunculis pedicellis parteque inferioris 
flonun pilis plumosis fusco-bninneis Miginosis, perianthii straminei tomen- 
tosi laciniis lanceolato-acuminatis tubum curvatum superantibus, staminum 
filamentis lacinias sequantibus, antheris apiculatis. 
This is one of the few plants, figured in the ‘ Botanical Maga¬ 
zine of which no living specimen yet exists in our Gardens. It 
is here given to show how much it merits cultivation; also 
because, from its peculiarly dry, or “everlasting” character, it 
exhibits so much of its beauty in the Herbarium, that we can 
vouch for the accuracy of the figure, both in form and colour. 
It is, too, among the rarest of the genus yet found in Australia, 
and is thus noticed, in conjunction with another species, A. pul- 
cherrima, figured in this work. Tab. 4180, in a letter from 
Mr. J. Drummond, published in the ‘ London Journal of Botany’, 
vol. iii. p. 263. “By a ship now about to sail, I send two fine 
species of Anigozanthos, collected by my son (since killed by 
the natives), in the vicinity of the Moore River. Of the golden- 
flowered kind {A. pulcherrimd), I gave some account before 
(vol. i. of Lond. Journ. of BoL p. 627, 8). The dark-flowering 
one, of which but two specimens have ever been found in bloom, 
is a real mourning flower ; the upper portions of its stem, and 
lower portion of the corolla being covered, as it were, with black 
velvet: the corolla is deeply cleft, and expands about two inches. 
The species is not allied to any other yet discovered in the Swan 
River Settlement.” The flower alone, independent of the curious 
sooty tomentum of the upper part of the plant, is indeed quite 
sufficient to distinguish this species; being much deeper cleft, 
with far larger and longer laciniae, and longer filaments to the 
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