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Showing Lambertia formosa var. longifolia
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Type: "The seeds of this plant were among the first which arrived from Botany Bay; in the year 1788... Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered for the first time in this Kingdom in the collection of J.Robertson, Esq. of Stockwell, Surry, in July 1798."
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Comment: Stafleu & Cowan, Tax. Lit. ed. 2, 1 (1976) 51 give the author as "probably ... John Kennedy", but as there is no such indication in the work itself, Andrews has been accepted here as the author.