Tas. 8112, 
LOMATIA FERRUGINEA. 
Chili and Patagonia. 
PROTEACEAE. Tribe EmMBornrRinat. 
Lomatia, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 183. 
Lomatia ferruginea, RF. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. x. p. 200; Roem. et 
Schult. Syst. vol. iii. p. 434 ; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. p. 342; Lindl. & Pact. 
Fl. Gard. vol. ii. p. 165; C. Gay, Hist. de Chile, Bot. vol. v. p. 810; 
Meisner in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 449; Murillo, Plantes Méd, du Chili, 
p- 195 ; species distincta, foliis bipinnatisectis vel tripinnatisectis primam 
dense ferrugineo-velutinis, racemis axillaribus brevibus latisque, alabastris 
valde inflatis. 
Fruter 3-6 m. altus vel interdum arbor parva, valde ramosus, partibus 
junioribus dense ferrugineo-velutinis. Folia breviter petiolata, Lipinna- 
tisecta, apicem versus bipinnatipartita, patula, coriacea, oblongo-ovata, 
saepius circiter 2 dm. longa, interdum ad 4 dm. longa, 8 cm.—2 dm. lata, 
proventu fere glabrata; pinnae saepe oppositae, 5-15-jugae, oblongo-lan- 
ceolatae, generaliter 4-8 cm. longae, breviter stipitatae; laciniae ovato- 
lanceolatae, saepius alternae et decurrenti-confluentes, 1-2 cm. longae, 
revolutae, integerrimae vel lobis 1-6 plus minusve pungentibus praeditae. 
Racemi axillares, erecto-patentes, laxe multiflori, foliis multo breviores; 
pedicelli 4-6 mm. longi. Flores 1-1°3 cm. longi. Calycis segmenta extra 
aurea et coccinea, intra vivide coccinea, basi apiceque lutea, oblonga, 
4°5 mm. lata, 3-nervia, extra ferrugineo-strigillosa. Gynophorium 1 cm. 
longum stylo paulum brevius. Jolliculus oblongus, leviter arcuatus, 
2°5-3 em. longus, apice longe acuminatus. Semina apice ala oblonga 
oblique truncata instructa.—JZ. pinnatifolia, Hort.; Annesley, Beautiful 
and Rare Trees and Plants, p. 9, cum tabula. Hmbothrium ferrugineum, 
Cav. Ic. vol. iv. p. 59, t. 385. Tricondylus ferrugineus, Knight, Prot. 
p- 123. 
This handsome Lomatia was one of the early intro- 
ductions of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, having been 
collected for them by William Lobb during his travels in 
Western South America in 1845-48, It has been recorded 
from several localities in Southern Chili, in the island of 
Chiloe and the Chonos Archipelago, growing, according to 
Cavanilles, in places occasionally inundated by the sea. 
Dr. R. O,. Cunningham noted its occurrence far down the 
western coast of Patagonia, and Dr. R. W. Coppinger, 
during the voyage of H.M.S. “ Alert,” in 1878-82, collected 
a specimen at Sandy Point, on the east coast of the Bruns- 
wick Peninsula, in the Straits of Magellan. This point 
appears to be the eastern limit of its distribution. 
The pliant has some repute as a medicine among the 
Janxvary Ist, 1907. 
