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the wild plant, compared witn very fine dried fpecimens 
fent by Mr. White. Only one garden in Europe, we 
believe, can boaft the pofTefiion of this rarity, that of the 
Dowager Lad}^ de Clifford, at Nyn Hall, near Barnet, 
who received living plants from Sidney Cove, which 
have not yet flow^ered. The feeds brought to this 
country have never vegetated. 
The flirub is 8 or lo feet in height, withfeveral wand- 
like fimple round branches, covered with a fmooth 
brown bark, and clothed with numerous large alternate 
leaves, without flipulce. Thefe leaves are from 4 to 6 
or 8 inches long, obovate, not broad, blunt, but tipped 
w ith a fmall point, fmooth and veiny, paler and even 
glaucous beneath, more or lefs ferrated in their upper 
part wdth fliarp unequal teeth, entire, and very much 
attenuated at the bafe, running down into a fhort rufty- 
coloured footftalk. A very denfe fimple fpike or head 
of flowers^ appearing in October, terminates each branch, 
furrounded at the bafe with an involucru 7 n of many 
large lanceolate acute leaves, of a moft fplendid crimfon, 
downy on their upper fide. The flowers are very 
thickly fet round a conical receptacle, each on its owm 
footftalk of half an inch in length. The petals cohere 
together at their bafe, except at the back of the flower, 
W'here the ftyle feparates them early. The anthers 
are reniform, flightly pedicellated, fheltered by a con- 
cavity in the tip of each petal. Germen pedicellated. 
Style incurved. Stigma large, obtufe. Fruit a coriaceous 
follicle, or pouch of one piece, cylindrical, fmooth, 
recurved, 
