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ANIGOZANTHUS flavida ; var. bicolor 



Two-coloured yellow- haired Anigozanthis. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. FLemodorace/E. 



ANIGOZANTHUS. Bot. Reg. vol. 23. fol. 2012. 



A. flavida. Supra t. 37. cum synonymis. 



Var. bicolor; foliis latioribus, panicula ramosissima, ovario coccineo, perianth ii 

 tubo viridi. 



This is the plant alluded to at plate 37 of this volume, as 

 a strikingly beautiful variety of the whole-coloured A. flavida; 

 and it will now be seen to deserve the particular notice of 

 the cultivators of ornamental plants. 



Scarlet and green are* by no means often intermingled in 

 the flowers of plants ; and when they are, the union is not 

 always agreeable. In this instance, however, the two are so 

 harmoniously blended and softened together, that a singu- 

 larly rich effect is the result. It would appear to be the 

 property of the other species of this genus to vary thus, for 

 I have wild specimens of A. Manglesii, for which I am in- 

 debted to Captain James Mangles and Mr. Andrew Toward, 

 of which one is all green, and the other two-coloured, as in 

 its common garden state. 



The panicle of this plant is much more divaricating than 

 in A. flavida, and that .character might have been looked 

 upon as sufficient to entitle it to rank as a distinct species, 

 had it been accompanied by any other difference besides 

 that of colour ; but I have sought in vain for any further 

 peculiarity. 



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