Lomatia pinnatifolia 
Native Country ? 
Nat. Order: PRoTEACE2. Tribe: EMBoTHRINEA. 
Lomatia pinnatifolia, Hort, and supra. 
A very handsome and rare evergreen, either from Australia 
or Chile, probably the former, but I have not been able to 
find it in any book under this name, nor is it known either 
at Kew or at the Botanic Gardens of Trinity College 
Dublin, Glasnevin, Cambridge, or Edinburgh. Though it 
has flowered regularly, it has not as yet produced any fertile 
seed, and we have in vain tried to strike it from cuttings. 
I have been endeavouring to increase it for many years, so 
as to present it to those institutions, but without success. 
The leaves are deeply toothed, of a leathery texture, and dark 
green colour. The flowers, which are rosy red and white, 
are so completely hidden by the leaves that they are not 
visible from the outside at all. It is planted in peat and 
loam, and is so hardy that the severest frost and the most 
biting east winds do not affect it. The plant figured is now 
about twenty years old, and is nine feet high, with a circum- 
ference of twenty-seven feet at the largest part. 
