Plate 274 
CLIANTHUS DAMPIERI, var. MARGIN AT A. 
There are few flowers which make a more striking appear¬ 
ance than the beautiful Clianthus Damjpierii , and w T e can well 
remember how much it was admired when exhibited by the 
Messrs. Veitch, at St. James’s Hall, in the year 1858; its sin¬ 
gular shape, bright glowing colour, and dark boss, giving it a 
most remarkable appearance. The plant itself is by no means 
a novelty, having been discovered in 1699, by Dampier (after 
whom it was named), in the dry sandy islands of Dampier’s 
Archipelago, N orth-West Australia ; but it had not adapted 
itself to the culture that it received, and so had all the charm 
of novelty when it was then exhibited. 
Pew persons who have visited the well-known establishment 
of Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, but could fail to admire 
the beautiful plants which were and are still grown in one of 
their long light pits, and would find it difficult to decide be¬ 
tween the claims of this plant and Lapageria rosea , which was 
grown in the same house ; it is impatient of damp, and requires 
careful management during the winter months, and is best 
treated as a biennial. 
It is to the Messrs. Henderson that we are also indebted 
for this new variety, which, if it at all corresponds with the 
Plate,* will be as great an addition as is the white variety of 
Lapageria ; but as they regard it now as almost as sportive 
as a florist’s flower, they will not, we believe, guarantee that 
* Several gentlemen who have seen the drawing, and have at one time or 
other resided in Australia, have recognized the plant as one well known to 
them, and greatly admired in the colony; so that we have every likelihood of 
seeing not only this, but other beautiful varieties, produced from the imported 
seed which the Messrs. Henderson are sending out. 
