﻿62 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40040 to 40064— Continued. 



40061. Peteophila puechella (Schrad.) R. Brown. 



Stem shrubby, erect. Leaves alternate, filiform, twice or three 

 times irregularly pinnate; leaflets unequal, divaricate when full 

 grown and not unaptly resembling the antlers of a reindeer, whence 

 it has been known by the name rangiferina among cultivators. 

 Flowers white, collected into an oblong-ovate cone, terminal. Bracts 

 obcordate acuminate, quite entire, imbricate, one to each corolla. 

 Corolla 4-petaled; petals equal, adhering half way in the tube, but 

 separating spontaneously when they fall off. Anthers oblong, at- 

 tached without filament a little below the tip of the petal, as in the 

 rest of the genus. Ovary surrounded with a white, hairy pappus, 

 oblong, thickened at the base, and gra%ially tapering upward till 

 it terminates in a style that is longer than the corolla,. recurved, but 

 after deflorescence erect. Stigma club shaped, hispid, and persistent. 

 (Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pi. 796, and Johnson, 

 Gardeners' Dictionary.) 



40062. Peteophila sessilis Sieber. 



Distribution. — A white-flowered shrub 8 to 12 feet high, much re- 

 sembling P. pulchella, but with the segments of the leaves more 

 divaricate and the branches silky tomentose, -found on the Blue 

 Mountains in New South Wales and along Moreton Bay in Queens- 

 land. 



40063. Stenocaepus sinuatus Endl. Proteaceae. 



As long ago as 1828 the lamented Allan Cunningham discovered this 

 plant on the banks of the Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, with other inter- 

 esting novelties. Not, however, meeting with the subject in flower, he 

 took no further notice of it in his journal than to remark that " it is a 

 slender tree, of most remarkable habit, with leaves large from the ex- 

 tremities of the branches, glossy and lobed, or lancinated." Had he seen 

 its blossoms elegantly arranged in candelabrumlike bundles, clothed with 

 the most vivid orange-scarlet silky pubescence, he would assuredly have 

 ranked it amongst the most important of his numerous additions to the 

 Australian flora. It is a plant constituting a small tree 16 feet or more 

 high, with a slender trunk, branched, and bearing the ample and glossy 

 evergreen foliage at the extremities of the branches. Leaves alternate, 

 1 to 2 feet in length, obovate lanceolate. Flowers umbellate; umbel 

 compound; peduncles lateral from an old branch, or sometimes terminal. 

 (Adapted from Curtis' s Botanical Magazine, pi. Jf253, and Johnson, 

 Gardeners' Dictionary. ) 



40064. Telopea speciosissima (Smith) R. Brown. Proteacese. 



" By many people this plant is known as the tulip or native tulip. It 

 bears neither affinity nor resemblance to that flower and the name is 

 probably a corruption of Telopea. This plant is known as the waratah, 

 which is doubtless an aboriginal name, but its origin does not appear to 

 be clear at the present time. It is a stout, erect, glabrous shrub 6 to 

 8 feet high bearing a strikingly handsome flower which has come to be 

 recognized as the national flower of New South Wales. It lends itself 

 in a remarkable degree to decorative treatment and hence is frequently 

 depicted literally, or as a motif, in wrought iron, wood and stone carving, 

 stained glass, and pottery decoration. The fruit is technically known 



