and Affinities o/'Cephalotiis. ?,\5 



obtained from a single specimen, sent in 1815 by M. Le- 

 chenault, who had found tlie plant in February 1803 near 

 the shores of King George's Sound, where I had gathered it 

 in a less advanced state in the beginning of January 1802. 



I have, however, more recently, received numerous speci- 

 mens with ripe seeds from Mr. William Baxter, who collect- 

 ed them also at King George's Sound in 1829. 



Cephalotus was introduced in 1823 from the same place by 

 Capt. King, into His Majesty's Botanic Garden at Kew, 

 where it iflowered repeatedly, and ripened seeds from which 

 several plants have been raised. A figure of one of these with 

 expanded flowers, but still without fruit, has lately been pub- 

 lished by Dr. Hooker in the Botanical Magazine ; and a plant 

 brought also from King George's Sound in 1829 by Mr, Wil- 

 liam Baxter is now in flower in Mr. Knight's nursery. 



The following account of the ripe fruit will serve as a sup- 

 plement to the description of the plant which 1 have given in 

 the work referred to. 



A K.ENI A membranacea, insecta parva alls conniventibus quo- 

 dammodo referentia, perianthio parum aucto staminibusque 

 persistentibus cincta, iisque sesquilongiora, fere distincta, ipsa 

 basi, ubi receptaculo com muni insertn, post separationem in- 

 tus aperta ibique e membrana simplici crassiuscula imberbi 

 nitente formata ; supra clausa et e duplici membrana conflata; 

 barum exterior dense barbata, pilis longis, strictis, acutis, de- 

 flexis, stylo persistenti brevi arete reflexo rostrata : membrana 

 seu lamella interior tenuis, intus quandoque dehiscens. 



Semkn unicum (rarissime duo), basi cavitatis niembran.np 

 interioris insertum, oblongo-ovale, teres, funiculo umbilicali 

 brevi juxta basin aflixum. Integmnentum duplex : Testa mem- 

 branacea laxiuscula, raphe tenui laterali et apice cJialazd parva 

 insignita: Membrana interior tenuis sepaiabilis. Jlhumen 

 semini conforme, album, carnosum, subfriabile, e materia 

 oleosa cum granulis minutis mixta constans. 



Embryo parvus, in basi axeos albuminis, teretiusculus, al- 

 bus, rectus, albumine 4' — 5ies brevibr. Cotxjledones breves, 

 plano-convexa?. liadicula teres, basin seminis attingens. 



Receptaculu-M commune fructus : tuberculum centrale, 

 parvum, brevissimum, subcylindraceum, cujus lateribus bases 

 apertae akeniorum adnata} sunt, apice convexiusculo barbato. 



From this description, especially of the embryo, it is eviilent 

 that Cephalotus must be removed from Rosacea?, to which it 

 had been referred by M. Labillardicre; and also, though not 

 with much confidence, in the account which I publislicd in 

 1814. M. de Jussieu, indeed, in 1818, proposed to exclude 

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