Curtis's Botanical Magazine/Volume 38/1581

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Class and Order.

Generic Character.

Cor. 1-petala. Stam. apicibus concavis corollæ immersa. Squamulæ hypogynæ 4. Folliculus. ligneus, 2-locularis: loculis 1-spermis: dissepimento libero, bifido. Recept. commune planum, involucro imbricato.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

DRYANDRA floribunda; foliis cuneiformibus inciso-dentatis spinulosis sessilibus, ramis pilosis. DRYANDRA floribunda; foliis cuneiformibus inciso-serratis, involucri bracteis: exterioribus glabriusculis, pe- rianthis laminis glabris, stigmate subclavato obtuso. Brown Prod. Nov. Holl. p. 397. Linn. Trans. v 10. p. 212. DRYANDRA floribunda; foliis cuneiformibus inciso-serratis, involucri bracteis: exterioribus glabriusculis, pe- rianthis laminis glabris, stigmate subclavato obtuso. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. v. 1. p, 219. JOSEPHIA sessilis. Knight et Salisb. Prot. 110.

The name of floribunda. given by Mr. to this species, may allude to the number of flowers which appear at the same time from the extremities of numerous branches, for no more than one are produced fromthe same point, nor are the florets in each flower, equal in number or splendour to that of many other species; or to its continuing to flower for so long a period.

Mr. follows Author:Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in considering the proteaceæ as having no corolla, designating the part so called by Author:Carl Linnaeus, by the term of calyx, in his first publication, changed in his Pro- dromus to that of perianthum. In composing Hortus
 * Kewensis,

-- Kewensis, it sometimes became necessary to alter the language of his characters to adapt it to that of, every where used in that work. In doing this in the present instance, Mr. Author:Jonas Dryander has committed an oversight, which occasioned us some trouble in determining whether our plant belonged to floribunda or cuneata; the author having described the laminæ of the corolla; whereas by lamina Mr. meant only the expanded part at the apex, into which the anther is immersed, considering the long narrow part of the unguis; which, so far from being smooth is very thickly bearded.

We have thought it better to omit this part of the character al- together, the sessile being alone sufficient to distinguish it from cuneata.

Native of the south coast of New Holland, commonly called Lewin's Land, the only country which has hitherto known to produce any species of, where it affects low rocky situations.

Communicated from the Nursery of Messrs. and , on Stockwell Common.

Flowers most part of the year. Introduced in 1803, by Mr..