Nuytsia
(named after Peter Nuyts, a celebrated Dutch navigator, and discoverer of that part of Australia called Nuytsland). Fire-tree. ORD. Loranthaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a very glabrous, showy, greenhouse tree, differing much from its near allies, Loranthus, &c., in being terrestrial and not parasitical. It would probably thrive in a compost of sandy peat and fibry loam; but, so far, it is believed, the plant has not been successfully grown in this country.
N. floribunda (many-flowered). fl. orange; racemes 6in. to 8in. long, crowded at the tops of the branches, simple; peduncles longer than the flowers, bearing each three bracts and three flowers at the apex; corolla nearly 1in. long. l. alternate, linear, obtuse, thick, 2in. to 3in. long. Branches terete. h. 15ft. to 25ft. South-west Australia.