1358 CXI. PROTEACEzE. [Embothrium. 
of the disk. Ovules numerous, ascending, imbricate in 2-series. Follicles 
stipitate, oblong, coriaceous, subwoody. Seeds 2 seriate, imbricate, piano- 
compressed, samaroid wing terminal oblong. 
1. 3EL Wickhami (after J. C. Wickham), E. v. 31. F ragm. viii. 161 and ix. 
194. “• Red Silky Oak.” A tall tree. Leaves ovate, oblong, thick coriaceous 
2 to Gin. long, f to ljin. broad, entire, veins immersed, brown on the underside. 
Petioles about lin. long. Flowers in corymbs at the end of the branchlets or in 
the upper axils ; peduncle short. Pedicels geminate, 1 to lfin. long ; bracts 
linear-Mibulate 1 to 1^ line long, deciduous. Perianth about lin. long, deep 
red, tube split on one side, slightly curved, limb before expanding oblique- 
globose, about 11 line long, lobes, more or less coherent. Anthers sessile, round- 
ovate, blunt opening widely, § line long. llypogynous .disk long, horsesboe- 
shaped. Stipes of ovary about 8 lines long. Style about 9 lines long. Ovules 
8 to 10 biseriate. Fruit cylindrical, 8 to lin. long, the terminal wing of seed 
broad and truncate at the end. — Ql. Agri. Journ. v. PI. 14, 111. 
Hab : Bellenden Ker Range, W. Hill (F. v. M.) ; Barron River, J. F. Bailey. 
28. BAN KSIA, Linn. f. 
(After Sir Joseph Banks.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular or nearly so, straight or curved, the 
slender tube opening equally or along the lower-side only, the limb ovoid 
oblong or linear, the laminae remaining long coherent, or rarely separating as 
the tube op.'ns. Anthers narrow, sessile in the concave laminae, the connective 
thick, usually very shortly produced beyond the cells. llypogynous scales 4, 
very thin and membranous (rarely deficient?). Ovary very small and sessile, 
style usually longer than the perianth, rigid, curved and protruding from the 
slit in the perianth-tube until the end is set free by the separation of the 
laminae, and then either straightened or remaining hooked or curved, rarely 
straight from the first and not exceeding the perianth ; the stigmatic end on a 
level with the anthers, of a different texture but smooth, or striate and furrowed, 
continuous with the style or with a prominent rim at the base, the real stigma 
small and terminal; ovules 2, collaterally attached about the middle. Fruit 
a compressed capsule, opening at the broad end (or rather outer margin, for the 
scar of the style is lateral) in two hard often woody horizontal valves. Seeds 
usually 2, compressed, with a terminal membranous wing broad and rounded 
like the valves, the seeds separated by a plate of the same shape (the consolidated 
outer integuments of the inner side of the two seeds) free from the ripe seeds, 
simple) completely consolidated) between the nuclei, double (remaining distinct) 
between the wings.- — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely verticillate 
or nearly so, usually narrow, entire toothed pinnatifid or pinnate, with numerous 
(rarely few) short teeth lobes or segments, the primary veins numerous and 
transverse, rarely inconspicuous or irregular and the minute reticulations numer- 
ous on the under surface, with a minute tomentum rarely wanting in the arcole, 
and sometimes white and covering the whole under surface, the upper surface 
almost always glabrous and smooth. Flowers sessile in pairs, in dense terminal 
cylindrical oblong or globular spikes, either terminal and sessile above the last 
leaves or rarely lateral or on short lateral branches ; each pair of flowers sub- 
tended by one bract and two lateral rather smaller bracteoles, both bracts and 
bracteoles densely woolly-villous on the sides, the tips glabrous tomentose or 
villous, either clavate and obtuse or truncate, or shortly acuminate, always 
densely imbricate in parallel spiral or rarely vertical lines. Perianth-tube very 
slender and entire within the bracts, ultimately splitting beyond them. In fruit 
the bracts and bracteoles become consolidated with the rhachis into a thick woody 
cone, either covered with the withered remains of the perianths amongst which 
