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ANIGOZANTHOS COCCINEUS. 
(SCARLET ANIGOZANTHOS.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
HiEMODORACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Perianth superior, coloured, tubular, woolly or hairy; limb six-parted, lobes 
nearly equal, inclining upwards ; slowly deciduous. Stamens six, inserted in the mouth of the 
limb, ascending. Anthers erect. Ovary three-celled ; cells many-seeded. Style filiform, deci- 
duous. Stigma simple. Capsule three-celled, dehiscing at the summit. Seeds numerous. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen herbaceous perennial, growing four or five feet in height. 
Leaves deep green, channelled, linear-lanceolate, acute, from one foot to eighteen inches long, half 
erect. Perianth crimson or scarlet, gradually inclining to green towards its summit, green inter- 
nally, swelling near the apex, where it is divided into six segments ; segments partially reflexed 
when matured ; covered with short hairs. 
The genus Anigozanthos has recently received several accessions from the 
Swan River colony, through R. Mangles, Esq., of Sunning Hill, Berks, from whose 
collection so many new and beautiful plants have, within the last few years, been 
most liberally distributed. Among the most remarkable additions to this genus, 
is a species, and likewise a variety of another species, with a somewhat unique 
combination of scarlet and green in the same flowers. In point of beauty, how- 
ever, the present species stands pre-eminently conspicuous ; its showy crimson or 
scarlet blossoms possessing only a slight tinge of green, and being also rather 
larger than those of the other species. 
The name under which this beautiful plant now appears, is believed to have 
been originally applied to it by Dr. Lindley, and is peculiarly applicable to the 
colour of its flowers. This is not a pure scarlet, but a shade apparently inter- 
mediate between crimson and scarlet ; and as the term u coccineus " may, without 
any perversion, be appropriated indiscriminately to flowers of either of these hues, 
(though most frequently restricted to the latter by botanists,) the character of the 
present species is thereby fully expressed. 
The treatment of this plant may be comprised in a few words. A moderate- 
sized pot, a light loamy soil, and an abundant supply of water in the summer, 
with great care in preserving it from unnecessary moisture during the winter 
season, constitute its principal particulars. It is specially desirable to keep it 
always in an open situation, where it will not be too closely surrounded or shaded 
