538 CIV. PROTEACE®. | Lomatia. 
about j in., perianth about 5 lines long. Fruit from J to near 1 in. 
long.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 448; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 828; Bot. 
Mag. t. 4110; Embothrium tinctorium, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 31, t. 43; 
Tricondylus tinctorius, Knight, Prot. 122. 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. Brown; abundant in sandy 
soil, ascending to 3000 ft., J. D. Hooker. 
. 6. L. polymorpha, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 200, Prod. 389. A 
tall slender shrub, the branches and inflorescence ferruginous or silky- 
tomentose. Leaves mostly oblong-linear or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 
entire, tapering into a petiole, 1 or 2 in. ong, rarely more or less pin- 
natifid, thick, smooth and veinless above, densely but closely tomentose 
underneath, the midrib prominent, the margins often nerve-like or re- 
curved. Racemes terminal, short and dense. Pedicels 3 to 6 lines i 
Perianth pubescent, 1 in. long.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 448; Hook. 
. Fl. Tasm. i. 827; Embothrium tinctorium, var. Labill Pl. Nov. Holl. 
i. 91, t. 42. 
Tasmania. Port de l'Esperance and Mount Wellington, 2. Brown; abundant in 
the western and central alpine districts, J. D. Hooker. 
26. CARDWELLIA, F. Muell. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth somewhat irregular, the tube open 
along the lower side, tapering at the top and recurved under the ob- 
liquely globular limb. Anthers ovate, sessile in the concave lamine. 
Ypogynous glands 4. Ovary contracted into a short stipes; style 
elongated, dilated at the top into a lateral disk stigmatic in the centre; 
ovules several, laterally attached near the top and imbricate downwards 
in 2 . it thi ng at length into a broad 
follicle. Seeds very flat, oblong, surrounded by a wing-like margin.— 
A tree. Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate. Flowers in terminal ra- 
cemes, in pairs, with the very short pedicels united. Bracts not seen. 
The genus is limited to a single species endemic in Australia. 
l. C. sublimis, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 24, 38, 73, and 152. A tree 
80 to 90 ft., the M oung branches and inflorescence minutely hoary ALIO 
oliage glabrous. Leaves above 1 ft. long; lente n 
10, opposite or alternate, all on rather long petiolules, ovate or © pies 
obtuse, coriaceous, veined, green above, pale glaucous or fulvous ba e- 
neath, 3 to 8in. long. Racemes several in a terminal pese- som! 
times shorter sometimes longer than the leaves. — Pedicels e y 
h 
about 3 in. long, 3 in. broad 
Queensland. Mountains about Rockingham Pay, Dallachy. 
