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APPENDIX. 
[B. 
Character and Descri'ption of KINGIA, a New Genus of 
Plants found on the South-west Coast of New Holland : 
with Observations on the structure of its Unimpregnated 
Ovulum; and on the Female Flower of Cycadece and 
Coniferce. 
Bv ROBERT BROWN, Esq., F.R.S.S.L. & E. F.L.S. 
{Read before the Linnean Society of London^ Nov. 1 & 15, 1825.) 
In the Botanical Appendix to the Voyage to Terra Au- 
stralis, I have mentioned a plant of very remarkable ap- 
pearance, observed in the year 1801, near the shores of King 
George the Third's Sound, in Mr. Westall’s view of which, 
published in Captain Flinders' Narrative, it is introduced. 
The plant in question was then found with only the imper- 
fect remains of fructification : I judged of its affinities, there- 
fore, merely from its habit, and as in this respect it entirely 
agrees with Xanthorrhcea, included the short notice given 
of it in my remarks on Asphodelese, to which that genus 
was referred*. Mr. Cunningham, the botanist attached to 
Captain King’s voyages, who examined the plant in the 
same place of growth, in February, 1818, and in December, 
1821, was not more fortunate than myself. Captain King, 
however, in his last visit to King George’s Sound, in No- 
vember, 1822, observed it with ripe seeds: and at length 
Mr. William Baxter, whose attention I had particularly di- 
rected to this plant, found it, on the shores of the same 
port in 1823, both in flower and fruit. To this zealous col- 
lector, and to his liberal employer, Mr. Henchman, I am 
Flinders’ Foy, vol. ii, p. 576. 
