Lnmatia.] 
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segments 3 to 7, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely-toothed, con- 
tracted into a distinct petiolule, 2 to 3 or rarely 4in. long, coriaceous and shining 
above, the veins not very conspicuous ; occasionally the lower leaves are 
undivided, or on luxuriant shoots one or two of the segments are again divided. 
Racemes G to Sin. long, solitary or several in a broad terminal panicle. Pedicels 
3 or 4 lines long. Perianth glabrous, 4 to 5 lines long, the limb ovoid. Fruit 
only seen young. 
Hub.: Kockiogham Bay, Dallachy. 
2. L. ilicifolia (holly-leaved), H. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 200, Prod. 
390, Prot. Nor. 33; Benth. FI. Auxtr. v. 536. An erect branching shrub of 
several ft., growing out sometimes into a small tree, 60ft. high according to F. 
r. M. Fra/jm. vii. 133, ’quite glabrous or the young shoots and inflorescence more 
or less ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves petiolate, ovate oblong or lanceolate, 
irregularly prickly-toothed or lobed, varying from 2 or 3in. in some specimens, 
to twice that size in others, glabrous above end more or less reticulate, closely 
and shortly silky-pubescent underneath ; the upper leaves often small and 
distant, and on barren shoots tlie leaves sometimes pinnate with numerous small 
sessile or decurrent lanceolate toothed segments. Racemes long and loose, 
simple or slightly branched. Pedicels J to Ain. long. Perianth glabrous or 
pubescent with small appressed hairs, the tube 3 to 3A lines long. Fruit 1 to 
Hin. long. — Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 447; Bot. Mag. t. 4023; Kmbothrium 
ilici folium, Poir. Diet. Suppl. ii. 551 ; L. Fraseri, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 34; 
Meissn. l.c. 
Hab.: From Mount Lindsay, JF. Hill : inland along the N. S. Wales border. 
The Queensland specimens are generally more ferruginou-pubescent than the southern ones; 
some of them have the leaves all small and nearly ovate. 
3. L. silaifolia (Silaus-leaved), R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Sue. x. 199, Prod. 
389, Prot. Nov. 33; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 537. A shrub of 2 or 3ft., glabrous 
or the young shoots and inflorescence minutely pubescent. Leaves mostly 
twice or thrice pinnate, rarely simply pinnate ; segments sessile and decurrent, 
linear or lanceolate, usually deeply and sharply toothed, narrow or broad, 
long or short, the whole leaf usually 4 to bin. long and broad, or the lower 
ones larger, the reticulations obscure or prominent. Racemes terminal, long 
and loose, simple or branched, the flowers larger than in the preceding 
species. Pedicels J to Ain., perianth white, 7 to 8 lines long. — Fruit about 
lin. long, flatly expanding with the style persistent, the stipes about 5 lines 
long. — Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 448; Bot. Mag. t. 1272; Embothriiun xilai- 
folinm, Sin. Specim. Bot. Nov. Holl. 23, t. 8; F. herbnccuni, Cav. Ic. iv. 58; 
t. 384; F. crithmifolium , Sin. (Steud) ; TricomUjlus silaifolius, Knight. Prot. 
122 . 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller. Common in southern localities. 
Yar. induta. F. v. Muell. Leaves silky-pubescent underneath, passing into the cut-leaved 
forms of L. ilicifolia. — Brisbane lliver, Moreton Bay, Leichhardt , F. v. Mueller 
22. EMBOTHRIUM, Font. 
(From en, in, and bothrion, a little pit ; referring to the pollen-cases or anthers.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, slightly irregular. Perianth-tube cylindrical at first 
then splitting, limb ovoid or globose, oblique or recurved, segments loose in the 
expanded flower. Anthers sessile in the concave lamina?, ovate, connective not 
produced over the cells. Hypogynous disk unilateral, semiannular, fleshy, 
entire or obscurely 2 or 3 lobed. Ovary long stipitate, narrow. Style-point 
oblong-fusiform or oblique-subdisciform ; stigma small terminal or in the centre 
