Australia, where it ranges on hills from Cape Arid to King 
George’s Sound. 3 
Descr. A large shrub or small tree; branches slender, — 
red-brown. Leaves four to six inches long, coriaceous, — 
narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse or apicu-  ~ 
late, narrowed into a petiole one to four inches long, triple- 
nerved and with thickened margins, dull green, sometimes 
minutely pubescent. Flowers densely compacted in axillary 
globose sessile heads one to two and a half -inches in _ 
diameter, blood-red with long golden exserted styles one- 
half to three-fourths of an inch long, rachis of head densely — 
villous ; pedicels very short, glabrous; perianth a quarter 
of an inch’ long, divided nearly to the base into four linear 
glabrous segments with oblong reflexed antheriferous tips. 
Disk very oblique, with a large globose gland on one side. 
Anthers sessile, linear. Ovary oblique, narrowed into the 
stout decurved style, which is terminated by a bifid stigma. 
Capsule the size of a very large nut, thickly woody, sub- _ 
globose, obliquely bluntly beaked; lips of the valves very 
broad, slightly rugose externally, very smooth internally. 
Seeds about three-fourths of an inch long; nucleus small, 
surrounded with a broad ovate membranous wing.— 
oD. Hf, 
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Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the style cut off ; 3, reflexed portion of a 
_ segment with the anther; 4, apex of pedicel, ovary, disk and gland; 5, fruit, 
and 6, seed from Herbarium specimens :—all but figs. 5 and 6 much enlarged. 
