that colony in 1801 by Sir Joseph Banks, as collector for 
Kew, and who spent ten years there. The name and 
accompanying description first appear in a work published 
with the date 1809, entitled “On the Cultivation of Protex,”’ 
by Charles Knight, in which no fewer than 254 species 
of the Order are described, and, as might be inferred from 
the title of the work, though it is not so stated, were 
then in cultivation in England. Knight wasa Nurseryman 
in King’s Road, Chelsea, and it is generally admitted that 
Salisbury was the author of the descriptions, though neither 
is this stated in the work, which is quoted by Meissner 
and others as by “Knight and Salisbury.” It is pre- 
sumable that the descriptions published by Knight were 
drawn up in the Banksian Herbarium from materials pre- 
pared by Brown for his “‘ Flora Australiensis,” for in Brown’s 
paper “On the Proteaceze of Jussieu,” read before the 
Linnean Society in July, 1809, P. aspleniifolia appears as 
a species with no citation of other authority, but with the 
observation that it exists m the Banksian Herbarium ; 
whereas in the “Prodromus Florez Nove Hollandiz,” 
published only a year later, Knight’s work is cited as the 
authority for the name, and Caley as the discoverer of 
the species. Those who are cognizant of the rivalries of 
the botanists of the early part of this century, and espe- 
cially as regards the publication of Australian plants, will 
draw their own conclusion as to the real authorship of the 
species. 
Descr. A shrub or small tree, twelve to fifteen feet 
high; branches slender, young minutely silky. Leaves 
four to ten inches, shortly petioled, linear-lanceolate, entire 
toothed serrate or pinnatifid, glabrous and bright green 
above ; beneath silky, white or fulvous; midrib distinct. 
Racemes one to two inches long, erect, sessile or shortly 
peduncled, slender, terminal or subterminal, minutely — 
tomentose; flowers secund, shortly pedicelled. Perianth 
one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, silkily pubescent, 
pale pink streaked with red; tube-cylindric; limb revolute, 
subglobose. ‘Torus short,.nearly straight; gland small, 
tumid, semi-annular. Ovary shortly stipitate, villous; style 
long, bright red, stigma oblique.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, vertical section of perianth; 3, ovary and gland all 
enlarged. — 
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