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LOMATIA SILAIFOLIA. SlJLPHUR-WORT- 



LEAVED LOMATIA. 



C&/i </«</ Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. irregularis, foliolis diftinftis fecundis. Stamina apicibus 

 concavis calycis immerfa. GlanduU hypogynas 3, fecundae. 

 Ovarium pedicellatum, polyfpermum. Stylus perfiftens. Stigma 

 obliquum, dilatatum, fubrotundum, planiufculum. Fotliculns 

 ovali-oblongus. Semina apice alata : ala marginata difco evaf- 

 culofo. 



Habitus. Fnuices. Folia uHerna % in plerifque divifj, 

 vel dent at a> rarius iutegerrima, quandoque in eodem f nit ice varia. 

 Racemi terminates, intcrdum axitlares, elongati t laxi y nee abhre- 

 vtaft, corymbo/i t paribus pcdicellorum uni-bratleatis. Flores 

 ochrolcuci. Involucrum milium. Semen nucleus farina Jul phurea 

 eonfperfus. 



Etym. Aw^a, margo, ob feminum alam marginatam. Brown. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



LOMATIA fdaifolia 1 folii* bipinnatifidis glaberrimis : pin- 

 nulis cuneato-liuearibus lanceolatifve incifis acutis 

 mucronatis reticulato-venofis, racemis glaber- 

 rimis elongatis divifis fimplicibufve. Brown Pro- 

 teaceae in Act. Soc. Linn. v. 10. p. 199. 



EMBOTHRIUM Jilaifolmnu Smith New HolU 23. /. 8. Willa\ 

 - Sp. PL 1. p. 537. 



EMBOTHRIUM berbaceum. Cav. Ic. 4. p. 58. /. 383, 384. 



TRICON DY LV S Jllazf alius. Saliflury in Knight Prota<e % 

 p. 122. 



OREVILLEA filaifolia. Donn Hort. Cant. 26. 



We have borrowed our generic and fpecific chara&er from 

 Mr. Brown's E flay on the Proteace/e ofjussi&u, now 



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