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Ta. 6100. 
REGELIA CILIATA, 
Native of South-Western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Myrrace&#.—Tribe LerrosPERME, 
Genus Regeia, Schauer ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 706). 
RecExtA ciliata ; frutex hirsutus v. pubescens, foliis parvis erectis patentibus 
recurvisve late ovatis obovatis v. fere orbiculatis obtusis planis con- 
cavisve 3-5-nerviis, floribus in capitula globosa congestis, rachi lanata, 
calycis tubo ovoideo, lobis erectis, petalis minutis calycem vix exceden- 
tibus integerrimis ciliolatis, staminum phalangiis ungue lineari petala 
longe superantibus filamentis ad 12 erecto-patentibus filiformibus 
flabellatim dispositis, antheris minutis adnatis poris subterminalibus, 
calycibus fructiferis concretis ore lato truncato. 
R. ciliata, Schauer in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., vol. xxi. p. 11, tab. i., figs. 1—3; 
et in Plant. Preiss., vol. i. p. 148; Benth. Flor. Austral., vol. iii. p. 170. 
This genus, named after the distinguished and indefati- 
gable Botanist and Superintendent of Culture in the Imperial 
Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg, consists of three West 
Australian plants, which, with the habit of Metrosideros, are 
closely allied to Beaufortia, differing chiefly in the form of 
the anthers and number of ovules; by far the finest of them 
is the R. grandiflora, Benth., which has never yet been intro- 
duced into cultivation, and in which the apparently scarlet 
bundles of stamens are an inch long, and the leaves, which 
are many times larger than those of R. ciliata, and clothed 
with a white silky pubescence. All are greenhouse hard- 
wooded plants. 
The species here figured has been cultivated for some years 
at Kew, flowering in September ; and I have also received it ina 
flowering state from Messrs. Backhouse, of York. The ovary 
appears imperfect, as if the flower were male only. The 
fruiting specimen figured is from the Herbarium. 
Descr. A straggling twiggy bush, three to five feet high, 
with more or less pubescent or hirsute twigs and leaves ; 
branchlets slender, strict, clothed with leaves. Leaves 
quarter to a third of an inch long, erect, spreading, and 
MAY Ist, 1874. 
