a new Genus of Plants in New Holland. 355 
Tab. C. fig. 1. Kiye1z Ausrrauis pedunculus capitulo florido 
terminatus; fig. 2. capitulum fructiferum; 3, sectio trans- 
versalis pedunculi: 4, folium: hee magnitudine naturali, se- 
quentes omnes plus minus auctz sunt; 5, flos ; 6, stamen ; 
7, anthera antice et, 8, eadem postice visa; 9, pistillum; 
10, ovarii sectio transversalis ; 11, ejusdem portio longitu- 
dinaliter secta exhibens ovulum adscendens cavitatem loculi 
replens ; 12, ovulum ita longitudinaliter sectum ut membrana 
interna solummodo ejusque insertio in apice cavitatis testa 
visa sit; 13, ovuli sectio longitudinalis profundius ducta ex- 
hibens membranam internam et nucleum ex ejusdem basi 
ortum; 14, bractee capituli fructiferi; 15, pericarpium 
perianthio filamentisque persistentibus cinctum; 16, pe- 
ricarpium perianthio avulso filamentorum basibus relictis; 
17, semen. 
Oss. I.—It remains to be ascertained, whether in this genus 
a resin is secreted by the bases of the lower leaves, as in Xan- 
thorrhoea ; and whether, which is probable, it agrees also in 
the internal structure of its stem with that genus. In Xan- 
thorrhoea the direction of fibres or vessels of the caudex seems’ 
at first sight to resemble in some degree the dicotyledonous 
arrangement, but in reality much more nearly approaches to 
that of Draczena Draco, allowance being made for the greater 
number, and extreme narrowness of leaves, to which all the 
radiating vessels belong*. 
Oss. II.—I have placed Kingia in the natural order Jun- 
cez along with Dasypogon, Calectasia and Xerotes, genera 
peculiar to New Holland, and of which the two former have 
hitherto been observed only, along with it, on the shores of 
King George’s Sound. 
The striking resemblance of Kingia, in caudex and leaves, 
to Xanthorrhoea, cannot fail to suggest its affinity to that genus. 
also. Although this affinity is not confirmed by a minute com- 
parison of the parts of fructification, a sufficient agreement is 
still manifest to strengthen the doubts formerly expressed of 
the importance of those characters, by which I attempted to 
define certain families of the great class Liliaceae. 
In addition, however, to the difference in texture of the outer 
‘coat of the seed, and in those other points, on which I then 
chiefly depended in distinguishing Juncez from Asphodelezx, 
* My knowledge of this remarkable structure of Xanthorrheea is chiefly 
derived from specimens of the caudex of one of the larger species of the 
genus, brought from Port Jackson, and deposited in the collection at the 
Jardin du Roi of Paris by M. Gaudichaud, the very intelligent botanist who 
was attached to Captain De Freycinet’s voyage, 
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