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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OE NEW PLANTS. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Proteacejl —Tetrandria Monogynia. 
Stenocarpus Cwminghami. A very handsome tree, from 
Moreton Bay, in Australia, where it was originally discovered by 
the late Allan Cunningham, in 1828. It has a slender trunk, 
branched and bearing the ample and glossy evergreen, deeply- 
lobed leaves at the extremity of the branches. The flowers are 
borne in candelabrum-like umbels, lateral from an old branch, 
or sometimes terminal; in the umbel before us, consisting of 
five rays, of which four are in a whorl, horizontal (as respects 
the axis), the fifth central and vertical, terete, clothed with de¬ 
ciduous golden down, articulated upon the main rachis ; the ex¬ 
tremity curved downwards, and the very apex dilated into a 
flattened and angled disc, the edge of which bears about thirteen 
or fourteen partial rays or pedicles of the umbel, radiating like 
the spokes of a wheel and with the utmost regularity, all inclin¬ 
ing a little upwards, each bearing a single downy flower, and 
spreading almost exactly horizontally all on the same plane. 
Before expansion the perianth is club-shaped, tawny or golden- 
green, the underside of the club or head yellow-green. The 
mode of expansion of the five linear-clavate sepals is very cu¬ 
rious, and adds greatly to the beauty of the flower when all are 
alike expanded. The colour within is a most brilliant orange- 
scarlet, the pistil the same, the clubbed apices of the sepals and 
the large stigmas only being a golden-yellow. At first the three 
outer segments of each flower become deflexed, all hanging down 
around, and at a certain distance from the axis, and at the same 
time the pistil suddenly becomes bent in the middle and rises 
upwards, so that the richly-coloured stipites are erect, the style 
standing forward, and the whole circle of brilliantly-coloured 
pistils forming a corona to the umbel; the fourth sepal within 
the crown is the last to separate from the stigma, and collectively, 
for a time, they form a sort of inner corona; they soon become 
flaccid and deciduous, when the pistils remain like the skeleton 
or frame of some beautiful piece of basket-work ; the lower half 
vertical, the upper half inclining outwards nearly horizontally. 
The lower half is constituted by the stipes, which has a long 
adnate deep blood-coloured scale at the base. The plant requires 
to be grown in a greenhouse.— -Bot. Mag. 4263. 
