VAS; Giese 
HAKEA TLAURINA. 
Native of Southwestern Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Protracra£.—Tribe GREVILLEE. 
Genus Haxga, Schrad. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 181.) 
_ Haxra (Conogynoides) Zaurina; frutex v. arbor parva, glabra v. puberula, 
ramulis gracilibus castaneis, foliis angusto elliptico-oblongis v. oblan- 
ceolatis obtusis v. apiculatis in petiolum angustatis triplinerviis, mar- 
ginibus incrassatis Inride viridibus, floribus-in capitulis axillaribus ses- 
silibus globosis compactis sanguineis, stylis flavis, capitulis, immaturis 
Squamis involucrantibusque deciduis rotundatis sericeis tectis, rachi 
tomentoso, pedicellis brevissimis floribusque glaberrimis, perianthii brevis 
lobis linearibus obtusis, toro obliquo, glandula magna, fructu subgloboso 
lignoso obtuse ros trato, seminibus late alatis, ala completa. 
H. laurina, Br. Prot. Nov. 29; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 411; 
Benth. Fl. Austral, vol. v. p. 518; E. Taufani in Bull. Soc. Tose. Orti- 
cult. 1888, 168, t=. 8; Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. i. p. 148, f. 30. 
H. eucalyptoides,; Meissn. in Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 573; vol. ii. p. 262, and 
in DC. Prodr. l.c. p. 418; F. Muell. Fragment. vol. iv. p. 130. 
A very striking shrub, from the abundant scarlet balls 
of flowers emitting long golden styles that deck the 
branchlets. Unfortunately it is not one that will stand in 
the open air in any but the warmest parts of the British 
Islands, and being a native of a very dry part of Australia, 
even the warmer counties would probably prove too 
damp for it. This, however, remains to be seen, for 
hitherto it has been treated in England only as a green- 
house plant. In the Mediterranean regions it does well; 
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it has flowered profusely in Italy and Sicily, first, I believe, — 
in Palermo in 1880, and later with the Baron Ricasoli, at 
his residence of Casa Bianca, near Argentaria, in Sardinia. 
Mr. Watson informs me that under the name of the Sea 
Urchin, it is the glory of the Gardens of the Riviera, 
where in Mr. Hanbury’s Garden, Mortalo, near Mentone, — 
he saw a plant of it, forming a shrub ten feet high, covered 
with balls of flowers, two and a half inches in diameter. 
The specimen here figured was flowered by M. Braves at 
- Nice, by whom a flowering branch was sent to the Royal 
Gardens in 1889. It isa native of the south-west coast of 
JULY Ist, 1890, - 
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