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EURYSPERMUM GRANDIFLORUM. 
Large-flowered Euryspermum. 
Ordinem Naturalem et Characterem Generis vide sub No. 75. 
E. foliis A genre SEI os apice late callosis, vetustis adhuc subtus pubescentulis, masculorum 
coloratis 2-23 pollices longis ; capitulis masculis hemisphericis: petalis lineari-spatulatis, 
Sponte nascentem in monte Wynberg, legit J. Nevin. 
Floret apud nes versus finem Maii, Junio. 
This is the handsomest species of the genus yet discovered, and one of those confounded in our 
gardens under the name of Protea Decora; but though male and female plants of all these are in 
Mr. Hispzerv’s collection, where the drawing was made, I have not time now to stu y them 
In the whole genus, the males are far more prolific and shewy than the females, as in the gene- 
~— of animals; so we have here another eke analogy between the two kingdoms, 
m of our plant 5 feet high, round, pubescent towards the top: Branches robust, not so much 
subdivided as in the others, Leaves pale green, the larger ones 6 or 7 lines broad and two inches 
long, almost Baca. scarcely twisted, spatulate-lanced, very entire, obtuse the point itself — 
f ooth callosity, while young very downy on both surfaces, near the flowers often 2 
inches “i a = long and suddenly changed to a yellow colour, with the callosity of a reddish ureun. 
_ Flowers diffusing a strong and disagreeable smell, Fascicle or head of flowers from 1 inch and a ¢ 
to 2 inches in diameter, hemispherical. Bractes which belong exclusively to the head init 
below the flowers and a increasing in size till they are 5 lines long by 3 broad, recarve ed a 
the top, ovate-wedged ; between the flowers suddenly narrower till they are scarcely $a line in 
breadth but not shorter, sGaied, linear-spatulate ; all of them obtusely mucronated, and shining 
with the gum which exsudes from both surfaces. Torus between the bractes and flowers pubescent. 
Petals 6 or 7 lines long; pale yellow and coalescing into an arched tube to beyond their middle ; 
from thence deep yellow and irregularly reclined ; the uppermost flattish at the top ; the other 
three a little narrower and approximated with hollower tops; linear-spatulate, very eatire, obtuse, 
convex up to the anthers, then hollowish, smooth on both sides. Anthers about 2 lines long, some- 
what arched, linear, — smooth, discharging their pollen in part even before the petals expand. 
Nectaries ? pale yellow, 3 lines long, bristle shaped, smooths Style pale yellow, gradually atte- 
nuated, finely cociguaninds hairy near the bottom but without any rudiment of a pericarpium 
