328 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Proteacea. 
Hab. Abundant in the western and southern and subalpine central districts ; Kecherche Bay, Lake 
St. Clair to Macquarrie Harbour, Mount Wellington, etc. (El. Jan.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, Victoria, Mueller. 
A tall, slender shrub, 4-8 feet high, with pubescent branches. Leaves very variable, 1-3 inches long, linear- 
lanceolate, blunt or sharp, entire or toothed or pinnatifid, above glabrous, nerveless ; below covered with brown or 
ashy-grey appressed down ; margins recurved, midrib strong. Racemes about as long as the leaves, 1-| inch broad, 
short, blunt ; peduncles, pedicels, and flowers covered with somewhat silky pubescence. Perianth about as long as ' 
the pedicel, ^ in I both ends, glabrous. — I have not kept up Meisner's 
varieties, a, cinerea, and /3, rufa, as both occur on the same plant. 
2. Lomatia tinctoria (Br. Prodr. 389) ; fruticulus erectus, foliis pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisve rarius 
integris glaberrimis v. subtus ramulisque puberulis laciniis linearibus 1-nerviis obtusis acutis acuminatisve, 
racemo terminali elongato, pedunculo gracili, pedicellis glabris v. puberulis perianthio longioribus. — Br. in 
Linn. Trans, x. 199; Meisner in DC. Prodr. xiv. 448; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4110. Embothrium tincto- 
rium, Lab. Nov. Roll. i. 31. t. 43. {Gunn, 1, 1242.) 
Hab. Abundant in poor sandy soil, ascending to 3000 feet.— (Fl. Dec.) (v. v.) (Cultivated in Eng- 
land.) 
A. much smaller species than L. polymorpha, rarely exceeding 2 feet high, growing gregariously, and increasing 
i\v -uluerraiiean ruuner>, u hence the plants form ureat patches. D'avc* idabrous. pinnatifid or h 
into narrow-linear, blunt, acute or acuminate segments. Peduncles of the spikes much elongated. Pedicels slender. 
Perianth cream-coloured, sweet, but rather heavy-smelling, smaller than that of L.ferruginea. 
Gen. XL BANKSIA, Lmn.fil. 
Mores amentacei. Perianthinm 4-partitum, rarius 4-fidum, rectum v. incurvum, foliolis diu cohae- 
rentibus apicibus concavis antheriferis. Anthem subsessiles. Squamulce hypogynae i. Ovarium spurie 2- 
loculare ; ovulis 2, collateralibus dorso connatis ; stylo filiformi v. subulato, deciduo, exserto ; stigmate 
dilatato. Folliciihs lignosus, amenti rachi semi-immersus, ovalis, compressus, bivalvis, 2-locularis, septo e 
semmum testis connatis formato libero ligneo bifido. Semina nigra, apice alata, nucleo lacuna septi semi- 
lmuierso.— Arbores v. frutices ^hniiuqm rigidi ; ramis umbellat-is ; folds sparsis, rarius verticillatis, inte- 
gris, serrahs, piunalijidisve ; amentis rarius la ; /driris, rarius ubbreriatis, basi in- 
ter dum bracteatis ; floribus geminis, per paria 3-bracteolalis ; bracteola exterwre majore, interioribus col- 
•'aterahbus; zmentif ructiferi rachi lignosa ; folliculis plerumque in quovis amento panels, horizontalibus. 
A noble genus, no less remarkable for its handsome inflorescence than for the number of its species, which 
amount to nearly sixty. The majority of these are natives of the south-eastern coasts of Australia, very few compa- 
ratively being south-western, and still fewer tropical. The majority form bushes, rarely rising to small trees, and 
most have rigid, woody branches, often covered with very rough bark, and very coriaceous, hard, lurid-green or 
grey-green leaves, often pubescent or cinereous beneath.— Flowers densely compacted in terminal, broad, cylindrical, 
erect catkins, often resembling bottle-brushes ; when these are taken to pieces the flowers are found to be sessile, 
and aggregated in pairs, each pair having three bractlets at its base, one outer, and two collateral within it. Fe- 
nanth green, yellow, or red, tubidar, four-parted, often incurved ; the ballets coneave at their tips, and there each 
bearing a sessile anther. Ocary with four hypogynous glands, a -traiuhi, , s ., n , ,1 stvle. <m< -Hi' and two erect 
ovules attached together Fruit, few ripening in l( catkin iel, , i, u woo.K compn — -,l transversely elon- 
gated, horizontal., two-valved follicle, consolidated with the woody axis of the catkin Oil ,1U ided by a spurious 
dissepiment formed by the testa of the seeds, which are adh, , u le, ,„ t , i 'f» ,1.- -,-,!»..,',. at.mvard* 
