somewhat intermediate characters. Nearly thirty years 

 ago Miiller suggested that the Gippsland Waratah 

 should be tried in the open in sheltered situations in 

 England, and the Rev. Mr. Boscawen of Ludgvan 

 Rectory, Cornwall, has shown that the Baron's suggestion 

 was practical. From seed received in 1910 Mr. Boscawen 

 raised a plant which, when six inches high, he planted 

 out in a warm position in a mixture of bog earth, leaf 

 mould and granite sand. This plant is now fifteen feet 

 high, and in 1916 bore over thirty flower heads, from, 

 some of which it is hoped seeds may ripen. The material 

 for our plate came from this plant in 1915, in which 

 year Mr. Boscawen also succeeded in inducing T. sjiecio- 

 sissma to flower. 



Description.— Tree, 30-40 ft. high; twigs close under 

 the flower-heads, at first clothed with a close tawny 

 pubescence which soon disappears, elsewhere glabrous; 

 bark very dark coloured. Leaves linear-oblong or oblan- 

 ceolate, gradually narrowed to the petiole, acute or 

 obtuse, entire, 6-8 in. long, l|-2 in. wide, leathery, deep 

 green above, paler or somewhat glaucous beneath, nerves 

 and veins inconspicuous ; petiole ^-1 in. long, tawny- 

 puberulous. Flowers in capitulate racemes with a whorl 

 ot basal bracts; rachis glabrous; outer bracts ovate, 

 inner bracts oblong, cuspidate-acuminate, firm, glabrous, 

 red or reddish, thickened within, about 1J in. long; 

 pedicels 2 in. long, glabrous. Perianth crimson, tubular 

 beiore opening, slightly incurved, about 1 in. long, quite 

 glabrous, soon splitting to the base on one side ; limb 

 revolute ? -i in. long, 4-fid; lobes spathulate, somewhat 

 acute, the 2 inmost rather the smaller. Anthers wide 

 ? vate ' Uypogynous glands much united, surrounding the 

 7 e u f ™ e ? var y on one side. Pistil about 1 1 in. long, 

 slightly thickened at the tip, with a papillose stigma at 

 one side. Zrmt follicular, supported by the recurved 

 pedicel, oblong, about 2f in. long not including the 

 persistent style. Seeds about 15, ellipsoid, 4-1 in. long, 

 with a wide-linear terminal wing over 1 in. long. 



4 Stil-'5 fl W i r ; 1 T d; , 2 ' ?° Wer , ; 3 ' P art of the Perianth, with stamens; 

 1, FteW, o, longxtudmal section of ovary; 6, ovule -.-all enlarged. 



