A genus of 31 species, as enumerated in the admirable 
monograph on the Proteacece, by Mr Brown, in the Trans- 
actions of the Linnean Society ; of which about two-thirds 
have been introduced to our gardens, although very few have 
been figured in our various botanical publications. 
The individual here given, remarkable for its verticillate 
entire leaves, of a pure white on the under side, was discovered 
by Mr Menzies in New Holland, and brought by him to our 
gardens in 1794. It was afterwards seen by Mr Brown in 
Le win's Land, on the south shores of New Holland, and was 
by him first described in the place above quoted. Mr Shep- 
herd was so good as to send me a fine flowering specimen in 
September 1813 from the Liverpool Garden, from which the 
accompanying figure was taken* 
The blossoms yield a smell which is rather powerful, and 
by no means agreeable. 
Fig. 1. A pair of flowers, with their accompanying bracteae. Fig. 2- Single 
flower. Fig. 3. Lower part of the style and germen. Fig. 4. Extremity 
of a petal, containing the Anther. Fig. 5. Bractese, — All but Fig. 1. more 
or less magnified. 
