ON THE PROTEACEiE OF JUSSIEU. 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 genns 

 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 ass 

 afford so excellent a distinction, considerably loses its im- 

 portance in Telopea truncata, in which it almost always 

 includes the rudiments of branches, as in Hakea. In 

 natural affinity Telopea 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 Plora Peruviana) to be in like manner vascular. 

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

 is distinguishable by its vertical stigma, oval pollen, and 

 naked corymbi. 



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

 venosis cum raraulis involucrisque glaberrimis. 



Embothrium speciosissimum. Smith, New Holl. 19, 

 t. 1. Sims, Bot. Mag. 112«. 



Embothrium speciosum. Salisb. Farad. 111. 



Embothrium spathulatum. Cav. Ic. 4, p. 60, t. 388. 

 Gcert. Carp. 2,, p. 214, t. 2\S. 



Hab. In Novse HoUandise ora orientali ; prope Port 

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



2. T. truncata, foliis lanceolato-oblongis integerrimis 

 passimque paucidentatis subtus ramulisque pubescentulis, 

 involucris extiis tomentosis. 



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

 t. 44. 



Obs. Alam-seminis in hac apice semper rotundatam in 

 prsecedenti saepius truncatara observavimus. 



Hab. In Insulse Diemen montibus australioribus. (ubi 



V. V.) 



