Mr. Brown, on the Proteacee of Jussieu. 197 
Onrocarrrs grandiflora} | 
Embothrium grandiflorum. Lam. Encyc. Botan. 2. p. 354.* 
Illust. Gen. 1. p. 244. n. 1283. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 538. 
Embothrium emarginatum. Flor. Peru. et Chil. . p. 02. t..95. 
Has. In Peruvie montibus; in collibus frigidis Provincie 
Tarmæ. Flor. Peruv. l. c. 
34. TELOPEA. 
| Embothrii species. Smith. Salisb. 
Cuar. Gen. Calyx irregularis, hinc longitudinaliter fissus, inde 
quadrifidus. Stamina apicibus concavis calycis immersa. 
Glandula hypogyna unica, subannularis. Ovarium poly- 
spermum, pedicellatum. Stylus persistens. Stigma obliquum, 
clavatum, convexum. Folliculus unilocularis, cylindraceus. 
Semina apice alata, alà hinc immarginatà inde vasculosä 
nervo oblique recurrenti. Involucrum (racemi v. corymbi) 
imbricatum, deciduum. 
Hanrrus. Frutices ramis determinatis. Folia sparsa, dentata v. 
integra. Racemi terminales, corymbosi, paribus pedicellorum 
unibracteatis. Flores coccinet. | 
EryM. rmaros qui e longinquo cernitur, quod de his frutici- 
bus, floribus coccineis speciosis valet. 
In this genus, as well as in Lomatia, and perhaps in all those 
with an indefinite number ofseeds, an extremely thin black- 
brown crust is interposed between the ripe seeds, exactly 
corresponding with them in size and form, and which is pro- 
bably the remains of a fluid matter that had separated them 
in the unripe state. 
The most important characters distinguishing this genus from 
Lomatia, seem to be the single semiannular or nearly cir- 
cülar gland, the cohering calyx, and the vascular wing of 
the 
