John Lindley, Edwards's Botanical Register, Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes…
“ In the first place there is that most beautiful plant Calectasia cyanea, R. Br., a bush like an Andersonia, with quantities of large blue flowers with deep orange-coloured anthers; this is the handsomest Endogen in the Colony. ”
John Lindley, Edwards's Botanical Register, Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes…
“ Of Endogenous plants not included in the two preceding natural orders the number is either inconsiderable, or the supplies sent home have been very deficient; and, with such exceptions as are about to be named, they are of little interest. A Xanthorhæa is spoken of by Frazer, but I have seen no specimens of it. The form most characteristic of the Colony is Laxmannia,265 a genus of small heath-leaved shrubs, with capitate white membranous flowers, usually collected in heads upon the end of leafless scapes; of one of these curious, and rather pretty plants, there is a figure at Plate VII. A ”
John Lindley, Edwards's Botanical Register, Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes…
“ All the preceding, although very striking plants, in consequence of their unusual forms, are of no moment to the searcher after ornamental flowers; but of the latter there are a few that are very handsome, and several which deserve to be introduced. ”
