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LOMATIA longifolia. 
Long-leaved Lomatia. 
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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PRoTEX. Jussieu gen. 78, Div. IL Fructus 1-loc. polysper- 
mus. 
PnRorEACEX. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 15, segg. Div. 
IT. Fructus dehiscens. Subdiv. A. Unilocularis. 
LOMATIA. Cor. irregularis, petalis distinctis secundis. Stam. apici- 
bus cavis corolla immersa. Glandule hypogyne 3, secunde. Germ. pedi- 
cellatum, polyspermum. Stylus persistens. Stig. obliquum, dilatetum, 
subrotundum, planiusculum, Folliculus ovali-oblongus. . apice alata; 
alè marginatà, disco evasculoso, Frutices. Fol. alterna, in lerisque di- 
visa v. dentata, rariùs integerrima, quandoque in eodem ice varia. 
Racemi terminales, interdum axillares, elongati, laxi, nunc abbreviati co- 
rymbosi, paribus pedicellorum 1-bracteatis. Flores ochroleuci. Involuer. 
nullum. Seminis nucleus faring sulphured conspersus. Brown prod. 1. 389. 
L. longifolia, foliis lineari-lanceolatis elongatis glabris remot? serratis, race- 
mis axillaribus, pedicellis corollisque pilosiusculis, pistillis glaberrimis, 
rown prod. 1. 390- 
Lomatia longifolia. Brown in Finn. trans. 10. 200. Sweet hort. suburb, lond. 
22. 
Embothrium myricoides. Gert. sem. 3. 215. t. 218? (oomjectante Dom, 
Brown.) 
Tricondylus myricmfolius. Knight et Salisb. prot. 122. 
The foliage of the plant of our figure was considerably 
narrower and far less conspicuously indented than in the na- 
tive specimens in the Banksian Herbarium: the racemes 
were also longer and more remotely flowered. But we 
believe the differences to be entirely imputable either to se- 
minal variation or exotic culture; and not the types of 
specific origin. 
The species is not enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis; 
but we find by Sweet's useful Catalogue of the Garden 
Plants in the environs of London, that it was introduced in 
1816 from New Holland; where it was originally observed 
by Mr. Brown on the Eastern Coast, near Port Jackson, 
growing on rocky banks of rivers and streams. 
Lomatia is the only genus of the australasian Proteacew, 
besides STENOCARPUS of the preceding article, that has been 
yet observed to extend its type into other regions. It con- 
