84 
exhibition at the Paris Hzposition. No leaf, fruit, or flower 
my gr 
the Earl of Derby. Why this issue is quoted in the Flora Capensis 
under the reference ‘Burke and Zeyher’ is not easy to under- 
e 
inflorescence is peculiar, and unlike that of any of cur other 
arborescent Proteacem. It is rather like some lax-spiked Grevillea 
of Australia.” 
A slab of this wood labelled as Protea sp. was exhibited in the 
Cape Court of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. The 
Cape catalogue describes the tree as being “from 30 to 40 feet high 
and from 2 to 24 feet in diam., wood hard, heavy, reticulated 
colour to mahogany, and agrees very well in its characteristics 
with some of the Australian representatives of the order which 
are used for furniture, veneers, &c. 
Ormonde House.—In the Kew Bulletin (1891, p. 285) it is stated 
that the “site of Ormonde House ig not certai i 
f t 
