ON THE PROTEACEiE OE JUSS1EU. 167 



thin black-brown crust is interposed between the ripe 

 seeds, exactly corresponding with them in size and form, 

 and which is probably 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 

 circular gland, the cohering calyx, and the vascular wing of 

 the seed ; for the Involucrum, which at first seems to [198 

 afford so excellent a distinction, considerably loses its im- 

 portance in Teiopea truncata, in which it almost always 

 includes the rudiments of branches, as in Hakea. In 

 natural affinity Teiopea approaches much more nearly to 

 Oreocallis, which differs principally in having no gland at 

 the base of the footstalk of its ovarium, and in the want of 

 an Involucrum : the wing of the seed seems (from the 

 figure in the Flora Peruviana) to be in like manner vascular. 

 Embothrium itself, which is also very near akin to Teiopea, 

 is distinguishable by its vertical stigma, oval pollen, and 

 naked corymbi. 



1. T. speciosissima, foliis cuneato-oblcngis inciso-dentatis 

 venosis cum ramulis involucrisque glaberrimis. 



Embothrium speciosissimum. Smith, New HolL 19, 

 t. 7. Sims, Bot, Mac/. 1128. 



Embothrium speciosum. Salisb. Par ad. 111. 



Embothrium spathulatum. Cav. 1c. 4, p. 60, t. 388. 

 Gcert. Carp. 3, p. 214, #.218. 



Hab. In Novae Hollandise ora orientali ; prope Port 

 Jackson : locis saxosis, prsesertim subumbrosis. (ubi v. v.) 



2. T. truncata, foliis lanceolato-oblongis integerrimis 

 passimque paucidentatis subtiis ramulisque pubescentulis, 

 involucris extiis tomentosis. 



Embothrium truncatum. Lahill. Nov. Roll. 1, p. 32, 

 t. 44. 



Obs. Alam seminis in hac apice semper rotundatam in 

 prsecedenti sa3pius truncatam observavimus. 



Hab. In Insulse Diemen montibus australioribus. (ubi 

 v. v.) 



