perianthium : anthers 2-lobed, the lobes divaricate. Pistil 
seated on a white horn-like gland. Ovariwm bearded at the 
base, and smooth upwards. Style smooth and glossy, red, about 
three-fourths of an inch in length. Sézgma slightly bent back- 
wards, flattened, with a short conical raising in the centre. 
Our drawing of the present beautiful species was made last 
Spring at the Nursery of Mr. Mackay, at Clapton, but we be- 
lieve the species was first introduced to His Majesty’s Royal 
Botanic Garden at Kew; as it was discovered by Mr. A. Cun- 
ningham, His Majesty's Collector; on the banks of Cox’s 
River; and is described by him in the Appendix to Barron 
Field’s Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales, where he 
mentions it as a plant of robust stoutish growth; the plant from 
which our drawing was made, was about three feet high, and it 
continued to flower nearly all the Summer; the flowers are of 
the finest colour when the plant is out in the open air, the con- 
finement in the house making them paler. It is a hardy Green- 
house Shrub, thriving well in a mixture of light turfy loam, peat, 
and sand, and the pots should be well drained, that it may not 
become sodden with too much moisture ; ripened cuttings root 
readily, planted under hand-glasses in sand, and to be shaded 
from the sun. 
PL PL PL OL LE OE PL ET 
1. Front view of a flower, showing the four Stamens inserted in the hollow points 
of the laciniz. 2, The two largest segments, showing the 2-lobed Anthers in the 
point, and the beard at the base. 3. The two smaller segments. 4, Ovarium di- 
vested of the perianthinm, showing the gland on which it is seated at the base, the 
ovarium smooth but bearded at the base, terminated by the Style, and side view of 
the Stigma. 
