452 J. H. MAIDEN. 



matches the wash marked "scarlet madder" (alizarin). I 

 then placed the branch bearing the flower beside a scarlet 

 geranium bush in full bloom, and going off ten yards or so 

 carefully noted the colour impression given by the flowers 

 of both plants. The Eucalyptus blossom was not sensibly 

 different from those of the geranium. I asked my sisters 

 their opinion of the colour; they were a little doubtful, but 

 declared emphatically "it is not crimson." They agreed 

 with my conclusions as to matching the washes. In brief, 

 I have completely confirmed my original note that the 

 flowers are properly described as scarlet." (29/3/13.) 



On 17/9/13, 1 received from Mr. A.GL Hamilton a coloured 

 drawing of the flowers he had made when he was in Wes- 

 tern Australia. The colour is, according to Dauthenay, 

 "Rep. de Couleurs," 'claret,' see plate 167, figs. 1-4. (It 

 is only fair to say that it is often difficult to reproduce very 

 bright colours in water colour.) 



That of the flowers blooming in the Sydney Botanic 

 Gardens, May, 1916, is "deep rose pink" of the same work r 

 see plate 120, fig. 3. It is one of the species with ordinarily 

 coloured filaments, which may also have "white" flowers. 

 See Hooker's note, foot of page 239. 



Now as to the arrangement of the filaments in the mass. 

 Mr. Sargent writes me: — 



"The figure la of Plate 77 strikes me as giving a scarcely 

 correct impression of the flower. The blossom has always 

 struck me as being remarkably square-cut so to speak. 

 Stamens quite straight and all of precisely the same length," 

 and then comes a footnote by himself: — "I mean by this 

 that the mass of stamens is straight-sided and flat-topped. 

 'AH of precisely the same length ' is not correct." 



Mr. Sargent's note is well borne out by Mr. Hamilton's 

 drawing. It may not be clearly understood that my 

 "Critical Revision" drawings are supplementary to those 



