a ae Tas. 4507. 
ANIGOZANTHOS tyriantTuIna. 
Tyrian-purple-flowered Anigozanthos. 
Nat. Ord. Hamoporace™.—HeExanpria MoNnoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4180.) 
ANIGOZANTHOS tyrianthina; caule elato tereti dichotome paniculato superne 
purpureo cano-tomentoso, foliis plerisque radicalibus lineari-acuminatis 
rigidis striatis rectis glaberrimis marginibus serrulato-scaberrimis, spicis 
paniculatis secundifloris bracteolatis, pedunculis pedicellis perianthiisque 
externe tomento denso tyrianthino tectis, perianthii (intus glabriusculi 
straminei) laciniis lanceolato-acuminatis tubo curvato brevioribus, stami- 
num mes | ayer brevioribus, antheris exappendiculatis. 
» many fine things discovered by Mr. Drummond 
during his excursions in the interior to the south-west of the 
e. Swan-river settlement. He could not fail to be struck with the 
. Ree magnificence of this plant, three or four and more feet high, 
o growing in masses, and bearing paniculated branches and co- 
pious flowers clothed with dense tomentum of the richest Tyrian 
purple. Seeds have been sent home, but they have not yet 
germinated. Happily, however, as stated on a former occasion, 
the well-dried specimens of the species of this genus retain their 
form and colour almost equally with the living plant, and we are 
hence able to present an accurate figure to our readers. Its 
nearest affinity is perhaps with the 4. fuliginosa, Bot. Mag. 
t.4291; but the flowers are very different in shape as well as 
in colour. 
Descr. From a short, thick, woody caudex descend numerous 
woolly fibres, which penetrate apparently in a very sandy soil. 
Stem, or, as some might call it, /eafy scape, erect, three to five 
feet high, terete below, simple and hoary with downy tomentum, 
above dichotomously branched or paniculated, and clothed with 
dense purple wool. Leaves, those springing from the root, a 
foot long, linear, slightly channelled, rigid, striated, equitant 
APRIL Ist, 1850. 
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