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the wild plant, compared with very fine dried fpecimens 
fent by Mr. White. Only one garden in Europe, we 
believe, can boaft the poffeflion of this rarity, that of the 
Dowager Lady de Clifford, at Nyn Hall, near Barnet, 
who received living plants from Sidney Cove, which 
have not yet flowered. The feeds brought to this 
country have never vegetated. 
The fhrub is 8 or to feet in height, with feveral wand- 
like fimple round branches, covered with a fmooth 
brown bark, and clothed with numerous large alternate 
leaves, without ftipule. Thefe aves are from 4 to 6 
or 8 inches long, obovate, not broad, blunt, but tipped 
with a{fmall point, {mooth and veiny, paler and even 
glaucous beneath, more or lefs ferrated in their upper 
part with fharp 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 involucrum 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 own 
footitalk of half an inch in length. The pe/a/s cohere 
together at their bafe, except at the back of the flower, 
where the ftyle feparates them early. The anthere 
are reniform, {lightly 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, 
