135G 
CXI. PROTEACErE. 
[Stenocarpus- 
2 to 4in. Ion", varying from penniveined to triplinerved (the lower primary 
veins scarcely longer or much longer and thicker than the others), but the veins 
usually indistinct slightly prominent or almost immersed, a few leaves on young 
trees or barren branches larger and pinnatifid. Peduncles slender, terminal or in 
the upper axils, usually shorter than the leaves, bearing a single umbel of 10 to 
20 flowers or in luxuriant specimens as many as 30 flowers. Pedicels J to Mn. 
long, irregularly crowded on the summit of the peduncles. Perianth usually 
under l,in. long. Ovary slightly silky-pubescent or nearly glabrous. Ovules G 
to 8, not so closely imbricate nor so narrow and compressed as in 5. shiuatus. 
Fruit narrow, several inches long, closely packed with winged seeds. — Meissn. 
in DC. Prod. 451 ; Bot. Reg. t. 441 ; Hakea riibriccnilis, Colla, Hort. Ripul. App. 
i. 114, t. 3; Fmbothriwm rubricaule, Giord. Obs. 1837 (Meissn.); Stenocarpu&. 
acacioides, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 135. 
Hab. : Ranges in southern localities. 
Var. Moorei. Leaves broader and usually more distinctly tripli or quintuplinerved, the ovary 
minutely pubescent. — .S’. Moorei, F. v. Muell. Fragm. i. 134, v. 154. — Rockingham Bay, Dallaclnj ; 
Mount Lindsay, T(\ Hill. 
Wood of a red colour, hard, close-grained, and nicely marked ; useful for the finer kinds of 
coopers’ work and cabinet. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 347. 
Var. concolor. Leaves more prominently tripli or rarely quintuplinerved, the reticulations 
also more distinct. Flowers rather larger. Ovary glabrous or nearly so — S. concolor, 
F. v. Muell. Fragm. iii. 147, v. 1-54.— Broadsound and near Maryborough, E. Bowman. 
21. LOMATIA, R. Br. 
(From loma, a border, Seeds winged.) 
(Tricondylus, Salisb.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth irregular, the tube oblique, open along 
the lower side, tapering at the top, the limb ovoid-globular, recurved, the 
lamime long cohering. Anthers ovate, sessile in the concave lamina?. Hypogy- 
nous glands 3, broad and truncate, the fourth upper one deficient. Ovary on 
a long stipes, tapering into a long style dilated at the top into a flat oblique disk 
stigmatic in the centre ; ovules several, laterally attached below the middle, 
amphitropous, imbricate upwards in 2 rows. Follicle coriaceous, opening almost 
flat. Seeds imbricate upwards, with a broad terminal nearly straight wing, 
surrounded by the marginal raphe. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire,, 
toothed or pinnately divided, very variable on the same individual. Flowers 
pedicellate in pairs, in terminal or axillary simple or slightly branched racemes. 
Bracts under each pair usually small narrow and very deciduous or often 
entirely wanting. Perianths white or pale yellow, sometimes assuming at 
length a reddish tint. 
The genus is also represented in the mountains of extratropical South America, but the 
Australian species appear to be all endemic. The structure and proportions of the parts of the 
flower and fruit are remarkably uniform in the Australian species, leaving little for their 
distinction besides the foliage which is eminently variable. The thin fragile pellicle or powdery 
sub-tance interposed between tire seeds in this genus and in Telopca, appears to be an. 
epidermal production of the sepd itself, but its real nature can scarcely be ascertained without, 
observing it in a fresh state both before and after the maturity of the seed. — Benth. 
Leaves pinnate with ovate petiolulate segments 1- L. fraxim folia. 
Leaves undivided or once or twice pinnate, with sessile or decurrent 
segments usually reticulate and toothed. 
Leaves mostly undivided, ovate to lanceolate, acutely toothed, rarely 
pinnate 2. T,. ilicifolia. 
Leaves mostly once or twice pinnate . . 3. L. silaifolia. 
1. L. fraxinifolia (Ash-leaved), F. r. M. Herb, : Benth. FI. Austr. v. 
533. A tall shrub or small tree, the branches and foliage glabrous and drying 
black, the inflorescence slightly ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves mostly pinnate ; 
