STENOCARPUS CUNNINGHAMI. 
(Mr. Cunningham's Stenocarpus.) 
Class. 
TETRANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PROTEACEiE. 
Generic Character.— Leaves alternate, quite entire. 
Flowers produced in axillary or terminal pedunculated 
umbels, ochreous or orange-coloured. Perianthium 
irregular, composed of distinct secund leaves. Sta- 
mens immerged in the hollow of the leaves of the 
perianthium. Glands hypogynous, consisting of one 
principal semi-annular process. Ovar ium pedicelled, 
many-seeded. Style deciduous. Stigma oblique, orbi- 
cularly dilated, plain. Follicle linear. Seeds winged 
at the base. 
Specific Character.— Plant a small evergreen tree. 
Leaves large, obovate, lanceolate, entire, sinuated, 
pinnatifid. Umbel compound. Flowers silk orange- 
coloured.— Bot. Mag. 
SYSONYME.—Agnostus sinuata. 
What was said respecting Agnostus sinuata in the last volume, will have led to 
the supposition that the plant which bore that name is no ordinary one ; and indeed 
it is not, for its inflorescence is of the most singular beauty. Since we wrote that 
notice, Stenocarpus Cunninghami has been published as its name, by Sir W. Hooker, 
who had the honour of naming the species. Sir William's character is adopted 
above, and his further account of it introduced at page 31. 
Next to the extraordinary structure of the strikingly beautiful floral organization 
of our plant, the surprising variation in the foliage of different cultivated specimens 
is the most remarkable feature in its character. Naturally, the leaves are 
pinnatifid, eighteen inches and upwards in length: and the same is the case with 
those produced under culture, where the plants have abundant root-room. But so 
widely different is the shape and size of the leaves of plants which have limited 
space to root in, that it is difficult to believe they are the same species. Many 
leaves of such plants have no sinuations whatever, and the majority but few, while 
in size neither are much larger than the pinnse or lobes of those borne by plants 
having ample root-room. 
Two specimens, produced under the above cramped culture were last autumn, 
clothed with leaves of small dimensions. One of these — a plant in the " United 
Gardeners' Nursery," King's-road, Chelsea — was the first to bloom, and from it our 
drawing was taken ; this had been long growing in a pot much too small for the 
plant, and had been severely pruned and placed in a stove, where it burst into 
flower. The other was also comparatively confined at its roots, and had been for a 
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