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ISOPOGON* formdsus. 

 Handsome Isopogon. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Proteace;e, 

 ISOPOGON.— Supn}, vol. W.fol. 900. 



I. formosus ; foliis bipinnatifidis siibtriternatis filiformil)MS supra canalicii- 

 latis : laciiiiis divaricatis, ramulis tomentosis, perianthiis o-labris: laminis 

 apice pilosiusculis. — i2. Brown in Linn, trans. 10. 72. Prodr. 1. 

 366. Sfc. 



Frutex rigidus, ramosus, ramis nuirinis : vetustis nvdiusculis, juniorihns 

 sericeo-villosis. Folia stepius triternata, dura, teretia, pungejitia, suprcl 

 sulcata, glabra, laciaiis divaricatis. Capitulum snhsessile, terminate, foliis 

 involucratum. Squamse ohovutce, cuspidatce, cxtiis lanatce. Calyx max 

 deciduus, tuho gracili glabra. Umbo quadrifido, laciniis spatulatis, pur- 

 pureis, apice extremo villosis, intiis antheriferis, infra antheras bicallosis. 

 Ovarium villosissimu7n ; stylus filiformis, apice biarticulatus, articiilo infe- 

 riore luteo, pubescentc, clavafo, superiore ovato, elongafo, glabro, ad apicem 

 stigmatifero. 



This, the most beautiful of its genus, is said to have 

 been introduced so long since as the year 1805 to the 

 Kew Garden. As far, however, as the public is concerned, 

 the date of its introduction may be more properly fixed in 

 1824, when it was raised by Mr. Mackay, from seeds col- 

 lected in the neighbourhood of Lucky Bay, by Mr. Baxter, 

 on his first visit to the west coast of New Holland. It is 

 right, that in all questions about the period at which plants 

 have been introduced, this distinction should be borne in 

 mind, and that the world should be aware that the intro- 



* From 'iTCi, equal, and -Tvuym, a beard ; so named because the long 

 hairs of the fruit are placed equally all over it, and do not arise from one 

 side only, as in the neighbouring genus Petrophila. 



