nerves : petioles four to five inches long, rounded, clothed 

 with rusty down. The young leaves are covered all over 

 with a rich velvety, red tomentum. Head of Flowers ter- 

 minal, moderately large, handsome, surrounded at the base 

 by an involucre of many imbricated, oblongo-ovate leaves 

 or bracteas ; thickly clothed with rusty-coloured down. 

 Small, subulate scales are mixed with the flowers. Peri- 

 anth tubular, cut nearly half-way down into four, narrow- 

 linear, dull orange-coloured, erect laciniae, hairy without, 

 and bearded at the extremity. Within each of these laci- 

 niae, lodged in a groove, is a linear anther. Germen linear- 

 oblong. Style filiform. Stigma clavate. 



The present is one of the many fine Australian Proteace^e 

 for which our collections are indebted to Mr. Mackay of the 

 Clapham Nursery ; and by him plants were communicated 

 to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, where the flowering spe- 

 cimen here figured was produced in September, 1830. It 

 is a native of the South coast of New Holland, whence the 

 seeds were procured by Mr. Baxter. It is a plant of con- 

 siderable beauty, and of much variety of colouring. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Segment of the Perianth, with its Stamen. 3. Pistil. 

 -Magnified. 



