John Sims, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume XXXVIII…
“ The name of floribunda. given by Mr. Brown 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. Brown follows Jussieu in considering the proteaceæ as having no corolla, designating the part so called by Linnæus, by the term of calyx, in his first publication, changed in his Pro- dromus to that of perianthum. ”
