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XVIII. On the DoryantheSy a new Genus of Plants from New Hollands 



next akin toHhe Agave. 



By Jo/eph Correa de SerrWy LL.D. F.R,S, ami L,S. 



Read December 2, 1800. 



Amongst the various new and intjrefling plants with which 

 New Holland has of late enriched Botany, none perhaps has um 

 equal claim to public notice w^ith the plant which forms the fubje6l 

 of the prefent paper. Its beauty, its fhape and elegance, and the 

 tenacity of its vital powers, entitle it to particular attention both 

 from the cultivator and the naturaJift. '''- *'"^ 



It was found in the mountainous part of the colony of New 

 South Wales, by Mr. George Bafs, A.L.S. who brought the firft 

 fpecimens of it laft year to Europe, in the fhip Perfeverancc. Other 

 fpecimens, in a high ftate of_prefer\^ation, have fince been brought in 

 fpirits by Governor Hunter. From both thefe lources, and a fin- 

 gle flower which came to perfeclion at Kew, from a portion of flem 

 without roots, which had been cut many months before, in New 

 Holland, the following defcription of the genus has been made, and 

 the chara(£ter eflablilhed : 



DORYANTHES* 



Flos. 

 Calyx nullus^ nifi fpathae partiales. 



* From the Greek Aofv, hq/ia ; AofvavSnj, Hajlajlortda. 



E e 2 Corolla 



