NATIVE TULlP-TrxEE OP NEW SOUTH "WALES. 3G3 
n. 4576) it is regarded as allied to Cornea. From tlie latter Order it 
differs in liaving the petals of the male flowers imbricate. It seems 
to me to be a genus which might also be referred with propriety to 
Haloraginem. The female flowers are without petals and stamens, as 
I suppose those of Toricellia to be. ■ - 
Adoxa still lingers in most of our European Floras in Hederaeea^ 
though it was shown more than thirty years ago, by J. Keeper (see 
Meisuer, Gen, Comm. p. Ill) to be intimately related to Sambiictts. 
Linnaeus and Jussieu referred it to Saxifrage(jB^ near CJirysosplenium ; 
Adanson to PortulacefS, placed by him betw^een Cadeee and Saxifragece ; 
and De Candolle, Bartling, Lindley, Endlicher, Fries, Brongniart, De- 
caisne, and others, to Araliacea, Payer made Adoxa the type of a 
distinct Natural Order, wliich he thought more allied to SamhucinecB 
than HederacecB ; and Agardh (Theoria, p. 77), who also regards it as 
a separate Order, looks upon the Adoxece as " Ranunciilacem verticillis 
omnibus floralibus clausis, partibus ideo (!) numero definitis arctiusque 
conjunctis;" which reminds us of the views of Caspar Bauhin, who 
named Adoxa ^^Ranunculns nernoi'osus, Muscatellina dicius.^' In 1860, 
Professor Keeper published a critique of parts of Agardh's * Theoria,' 
in his well-known * Preconceived Botanical Opinions Defended/* in 
which he shows convincingly that on this _ point Agardh's views are 
erroneous, and that Adoxa does not constitute a separate Natmal Order 
allied to Ranuuculacea, but must retain its place ncixT Samiucus, wlere 
he put it years ago. 
THE WAEATAH, OR NATIVE TULIP-TREE OF NE\Y 
SOUTH WALES {TELOPEA SPECIOSISSIMA). 
By George Bennett, M.D., F.L.S, 
The flower called by the aborigines " Waratah," and " Native Tulip'* 
by the colonists of New South Wales, is considered the most beautiful 
vegetable production indigenous to this colony, and is produced from 
a stiff, erect, and rigid shrub, having the leaves of a hard woody tex- 
ture, marking the Proteads, to which Order the Waratah {Tdojpea spe- 
Yorgefasate Botanische Meinungen, vertbeidigt von Dr. Joliannea 
Eceper, Professor in Eostock." Kostock ; 1860. 8vo. A book dispkymg a 
profoimd knowledge of the vegetable kingdom. 
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