springing from opposite ensate bracts: pedicels, round, attended by 
short reddish bracteol, all which parts are clothed with brownish 
red down. Perricone tubular, cylindrical, from 2 to 3 inches long, 
sometimes splitting longitudinally, detisely clothed with thick plumose 
hairs, base swollen roundish, of an orange or blood-colour, which 
verges to a yellowish green towards the top of the tube: limb erect, 
divided into 6 lanceolate, pointed, equal segments; segments green on 
the inner side. STamENs 6, the upper ones somewhat projecting, in- 
serted on the mouth of the tube, filaments short. ANTHERs linear, blunt, 
somewhat recurved, two-celled, orange, nearly five times longer than 
the free portion of the filaments, cells opening lengthwise. Ovary 
ge aaa cae ores a attached to a longitudinal 
placenta. § x I »glabrous, stigma capitate 
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_Poputar anp GeocrapnicaL Notice. The present plant is a 
native of Swan River, but whether the same as that described by Pro- 
fessor Don may be doubted. It bears such resemblance to the original 
Anigozanthus rufa of Labillardiere as to inspire a belief that it may 
be identical with it: if merely a variety of Anigozanthus Manglesii it is 
certainly a much handsomer specimen than the one figured in Bot. 
Reg. t. 2012, the chief character of which, lies in its having a few scat- 
tered hairs along the margins of the leaves. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GrowN; CuLTureE. Seeds were sent in 
1833, by Sir James Sterling, Governor of Swan River Settlement, to 
Robert Mangles Esq. Whitmore Lodge, Berks, whose very intelligent 
gardener, Mr. Donald Mackay, gives the following account of the 
treatment. “The seeds were sown in August, 1833, and the young 
plants were potted off, and kept in an airy part of the greenhouse du- 
ring winter. Early in the spring they were repotted, and in April they 
were planted out in a border, composed of maiden loam, leaf mould, 
and bog earth, in equal proportions, with a slight mixture of pounded 
chalk, in which the plants were found to thrive amazingly, shewing 
flower at the age of 10 months. A cold frame will protect them well 
enough in winter.” Brit. Flow. Gard. 265. Our drawing was made 
in the Birmingham Botanic Garden, where the plant continued to flow- 
er nearly three months, in the Greenhouse. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
ANIGOZANTHUS; dscyw, I raise up, and ay@oc a flower, from bearing up, as if 
proudly, its crown of flowers. Mineisens th compliment to Mr. fare 
SynonymMeE. 
AnicozanTHus Mancrest. Don: in Sweet’s British Flow. Gard. III, t. 265. 
