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ANIGOZANTHUS GRANDIFLORA. 
Large-flowered Anigozanthus. | 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
silis. Sa ee “—— 
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Sect. 111. Genera Iridibus affinia. 
Pericarpium inferum, crustaceum. Corolla pericarpio confluens, curva, tubulosa: Limbus brevis, 
6-partitus, latere inferiore profundius hians : extus tomentosa, marcescens, Filamenta 6, ore tubi 
inserta, basi dilatata, parum sursum flexa. Anthere mucronata. Stylus curvus. Stigma clavatum. 
Semina numerosa, colis 3 centralibus spongiosis imbricata, gigartoidea. Herba facie Argolasie. 
Radix perennis, multiceps. Folia 2-faria, ensata apice introrsum falcato. Flores terminales, Panic 
dichotomd in cunabulis extrorsum circinatd. Bractew sparse. Ordinem distinctum constituere genera 
hujus sectionis, jamdudum monuit JUSSIEU, quibus jungo Philydrum, non semper monandrum ; bis in 
eo, duo stamina vidi, et rudimentum tertit. 
A. pedunculo inferne nudo: panicula laxa: corollis 14-18-lineas longis. 
A. Flavida. Decand. in Red. Pl. Lilac. n. 176. 
Sponte nascentem in New Holland, otis occidentalibus, legit P. Goon. 
A singular genus, first raised in this country from seeds sent to his Majesty’s garden by PETER 
Goon; it is now in several other collections, being easily encreased by parting the roots, and only 
ed, whether to regard it as distinct from Birtarprere’s 4. Rufa. After a minute comparison of 
; tomento ru 
A. Flavida, foliis ensiformibus, caule subglabro, corymbo laxo, tomento ochrolenco. — : 
I described this plant when it first flowered at Kew, and was no less doubtful about its being a 
legitimate species: the difference in the size of the flower and Billardiere's figure however, then in- 
duced me to call it Grandiflora, which name I still retain, reserving those taken from colour exclu- 
sively for varieties, 
Leaves radical, a few of the inner ones afterwards elevated by the peduncle and gradually shorten- 
ed into bractes, bifarious, vertical, linear-lanceolate with the point falcated inwards, very ap 
sharp, smooth, sword-like which term I use to express the transverse not the —- figure oO “* 
pag ae Pedunc 
ium before im regnation greenish brown, w di 
ein the sails where it is prominent, 3-locular w 
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the seeds quite brown, very w 
3 central fungous colums or recep iy — Co <a ee 
pium, from 14 to 18 lines long, externally covered with | —_ oe 
yellowish green, curved, somewhat funnel-sha ’ the r su ag eal a 
nally of the same colour as the tube and woolly, its inner surlace very purple but covered 
