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OROTHAMNUS Zeryvuert. 
Mr. Zeyher’s Orothamnus. 
Nat. Ord. ProTeace#®.—TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. OROTHAMNUS, Pappe, MS. Involucrum universale membra- 
naceum, polyphyllum, corollatum, calyces et stigmata superans. Receptaculwm 
commune planum, paleis filiformibus tectum, Cadyz corollinus distincte 4-partitus, 
regularis, laciniis staminiferis basi coalitis. Stylus subulato-filiformis, stigmate 
angustato, cylindraceo, deciduo. Nua sessilis ventricosa, immatura tenuissime 
puberula. Pappe. 
OrotHAMNus Zeyheri. 
OrotHamNnus Zeyheri. Pappe, MS. 
We have on several occasions had reason to lament the loss 
to our collections of many Cape Profeacee, which were once 
well known in our gardens :—they seem to have died out and 
have not been replaced; and we may now express our regret 
that the present superb species has not yet been introduced — 
alive to our collections. That it will be so ere long, we feel 
confident; and until that period arrives our subscribers will 
not be sorry to see a faithful representation, made from a 
living plant at the Cape, by Mr. Villett, of the present truly 
beautiful new Proteacea, kindly sent to us by Dr. Pappe with 
the accompanying generic character and description. The 
plant was discovered lately by Mr. Zeyher in marshy places, on 
the summit of Hottentot’s-Holland mountains, flowering in the 
month of July. We have tested the accuracy of the figure by a 
comparison with a specimen communicated at the same time ; 
but we have not had the means of making a full analysis of the 
flowers. In the system, as Dr. Pappe justly remarks, it will 
rank next to Mimetes. 
Descr. A shrub, six to eight feet high, erect, the branches 
purplish, villous. Zeaves alternate on the branches, sessile, 
imbricated, numerous, entire, elliptic, membranaceous, externally 
convex, within concave, obsoletely veined, pellucido-punctate, 
glabrous, margined with purple, an inch, or an inch andahalf _ 
MARCH Ist, 1848. D2 
