FAN-FLOWER 
OF NEW SOUTH-WALES, 
Slight as may seem oor reason for deno- 
minating this article the Fan-Flower, we have 
ventured so to call it : because, in the entire 
plant, a regular series of thirteen flower-stalks, 
or branches, similar to the single one repre- 
sented, rise from the same root, and spread in 
the form of a fan ; the longest occupying the 
centre, and the rest growing gradually shorter 
to each extremity of the groupe; so as to de- 
spribe a sort of angular arch with the flowers 
art the top, enriched by such as are buddii g 
and blowing less regularly beneath on the samd 
scalks. 
In a Memorandum at the bottom of the ori- 
; ginal drawing, we are assured, that this Flower, 
' hov^ever long it may have been kept, on being 
■ placed in the water, will contract itself as the 
under flower appears in the annexed print; and, 
after drying, will again expand itself, and as- 
sume all it's pristine vivid colouring, as seen in 
the flower at the top. 
This 
