PROTEACE^E 



453 



Lambertia formosa, Sm. (fig. 627).' 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, pale green or red, glabrous, 9-15 mm. 

 above the soil. 



Cotyledons obovate and emarginate, or almost quadrangular, 

 subsessile, shortly auricled at the base, thick, subrigid or coriaceous, 

 glabrous, opaque, glaucous-green, ascending, more or less revolute 

 longitudinally at the margin, 

 9-9-5m.ni. long, 7-9mm.wide, 

 minutely and closely dotted 

 with colourless spots. 



Stem erect, terete, finely 

 pubescent and hairy in the 

 young state, scaberulous, pale 

 green ; 1st internode unde- 

 veloped or varying up to 4 

 mm. long; 2nd 4-7 mm. ; 3rd 

 6-5-8-5 mm. ; 4th 6-11 mm. 



Leaves simple, entire, 

 cauline, opposite or in whorls 

 of three or four, decussate, ex- 

 stipulate, sessile, finely reticu- 

 late on each side of a strong 

 midrib, sunk on the upper 

 and prominent .on the under 

 surface, even or undulate 

 at the margin, and always 

 slightly revolute there, hori- 

 zontal, light green above, 

 paler beneath, hairy when 

 young and shortly and densely 

 glandular-pubescent, glabres- 

 cent. 



First and second pairs generally lanceolate, acute. 



Third to ninth pairs linear-acute, cuspidate or bristle-tipped, 

 slightly tapered to the base. 



All these figures and descriptions are very liable to variation. 

 Sometimes the third to seventh pairs are much shorter, wider, 

 lanceolate and cuspidate. 



The same numbers may be in whorls of three or four, or they 

 may not be verticillate till the eighth or other higher nodes are 

 reached. 



FIG. 627. Lambertia formosa. Nat. size. 



