386 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Next Embothrium come the three genera Telopea, Lomatia, and 

 Stenocarpus, 1 which have, speaking generally, the same structure in 

 flower fruit and seed. But the first -named genus has terminal 

 inflorescences, forming short capituliform racemes surrounded by an 

 involucre of large colored bracts. The perianth often splits down 

 one side only, its limb then forming a four-cleft lip ; the disk consists 

 of a little subcircular glandular collar. Lomatia has with the same 

 perianth, a disk formed not of a single piece but of three glands, one 

 dorsal, the others lateral ; the flowers form racemes with involucres, 

 and the leaves are often pinnately toothed or laciniate. Stenocaipus 

 has the flowers of Telopea or Lomatia, collected into umbels on a 

 common peduncle, which may be axillary, terminal, or seated on the 

 wood of the stem or branches. The follicle resembles that of 

 Embotlirium externally ; but the embryoniferous part of the ascending 

 seeds is quite superior, the wing corresponding with the lower parts 

 of the seed. Excepting some American Lomatias, all these plants 

 come from Oceania, especially Australia. 



Knigldia has the characters of the preceding genera, but the 

 flowers are quite regular and the seeds are less numerous ; for each 

 cell only contains four ovules in two vertical rows. The seeds have 

 the same direction as in Embothrium ; their chalazal end is similarly 

 prolonged. This genus is Oceanian. 



The two Australian types, Cardwellia and Darlingia, very near to 

 one another, form distinct genera which must be classed in this 

 series, because the anatropous ovules are numerous; but they are 

 inserted on a more or less bowed horse-shoe shaped placenta with its 

 concavity superior. 



The genus Buckiughamia, of which only one species is known, also 

 Australian, has a pluriovulate ovary ; and as its other characters are 

 those of Grcciltea, we are prevented from putting this last genus in 

 a series distinct from Embothrium. 



Grevillcar (figs. 216-224) has regular or irregular flowers. 3 In the 

 first case the receptacle forms an inverted right cone, towards the 



1 Here as in Papilionacem, and for the same Prot., 117 (nee R. Be.). — Stylurus Kx. & 



reasons, the bibliography of each genus will be Salisb., op.eit., 115 (nee Rafin.).— Anadenia R. 



found at its place in the following Genera. Be., he. cit. 165, 374.— Endl., Gen., n. 2142. — 



- R. Be., in Trans. Linn. Soc, x. 49, 168; Manglesia Knui.., Gen.,n. 2112'. 

 Prodr., 375 ; Suppl., 17.— Endl., Gen., n. 2143. « Which shows the slight value of genera based 



— Meissn., Prodr., 349, 698. — H. Bn., in Adan- on this character. 



soma 



ia, ix. fasc. 8. —Lysanthe Kn. & Salisb., 



