is continued into the ribs of the leaves. Stipules an inch 
long, green, subulate, linear, unconnected with the petioles, 
pubescent on the outside. Peduncle solitary, single-flower- 
ed, longer than the petiole, from the axil of which it springs, 
and resembling it, filled with pith, obliquely reticulated, 
and bent about three-fourths of an inch from the calyx. 
Involucre about an inch long, green, divided to its base 
into many linear-subulate segments, which are occasionally 
branched, smooth on the inside, covered on the outside 
with long, harsh, simple, spreading hairs, arising from glan- 
dular bases. Calyx yellow, deeply five-cleft, rather longer 
than the involucre, densely covered with softer, shorter 
hairs on the outside, smooth within ; segments tapering, 
three-nerved, two of the nerves lateral, the other forming a 
strong keel. Corolla (in our plant, three inches and a half 
long by six inches across when expanded,) rose-coloured ; 
petals with many colourless, flexuose nerves, prominent on 
the outside, and there, especially, pubescent, connected to 
each other and to the lower part of the united filaments near 
their base, while towards their lower part, each having two 
dense tufts of dark-red wool on the inside of its callous 
base, within a large, obcordate, slightly orange-coloured 
spot, having a dark rose-coloured margin. In the entire 
flower this margin forms a continuous line around the cen- 
tre, inclosing a space about half an inch in diameter, and 
five tufts of red wool, produced by the confluence in pairs of 
the tufts on the petals. Stamens numerous, united ; fila- 
ments at the lower part pale, above rose-coloured; Anthers 
dark crimson, arranged in a pyramidal form; Pollen-gra- 
nules very large and spherical: Style projecting beyond 
the stamens, as is usual in the Genus, but much shorter than 
the petals, supporting five deep red, hairy, round stigmas. 
ermen covered with erect, silky hairs, quinquelocular ; 
Ovules numerous, attached to the central receptacle, and 
arranged in two rows in each loculament. Seeds ash- 
coloured, wrinkled, warted, angular. 
This noble plant was raised in various collections from New 
Holland seeds, sent by Mr. Fraser, in 1828, but I am not aware 
that it flowered any where prior to the present time, (May, 1830,) 
when it produced its superb blossoms in the stove of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Its only fault as an object of culti- 
vation is its great size, but in its native situation it must present a 
most brilliant appearance. Mr. Frazer writes of it: ‘ this I 
consider the king of all the known Australian plants, I have seen it 
twenty-two feet and a half high. The flowers, this season, mea- 
sured nine inches across, they were of the most delicate pink am 
crimson colour, and literally covered the entire plant.’””? GRAHAM. 
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Fig. 1, Piliferous Gland from the Stem.~-Magnifted. 
