ON THE STRUCTURE AND AFFINITIES ;i " 



CEPHALOTUS. 



In the Botanical appendix of Captain Flinders's Voyage 

 to Terra Australis, 1 a figure and description of Cephalotus 

 fotticularis are given, in some respects more complete than 

 those of M. Labillarcliere, by whom this remarkable plant, a 

 native of the south-west coast of New Holland, was first 

 published. Both accounts, however, are equally imperfect 

 with regard to the fruit ; and my principal object in the 

 present communication is to supply that deficiency. 



My earliest knowledge of the ripe fruit of Cephalotus was 

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

 Leschenault, who had found the 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 col- 

 lected 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 flowered 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 published by Dr. Hooker in the Botanical Magazine ; 

 and a plant brought also from King George's Sound in 

 1829 by Mr. William Baxter is now in flower in Mr. 

 Knight's nursery. 



The following account of the ripe fruit will serve as a 



1 \_VoLi,p. 76, L4,] 



