No. 163. 
Embothrium Wickkami, Hill and F.v.M. 
Var. pillnotO, Maiden and Betehe. 
A Red Silky Oak. 
(Family PROTEACEyE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Embothrium, Forst. 
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 laminae, ovate, connective not produced over the cells. 
Hypogynous disc unilateral, semi-annular, fleshy, entire or obscurely 2 or 3 lobed. 
Ovary long stipitate, narrow. 
Style-point oblong-fusiform or oblique-sub disciform ; stigma small terminal or in the centre of 
the disk. 
Ovules numerous, ascending, imbricate in 2-series. 
Follicles stipitate, oblong, coriaceous, subwoody. 
Seeds 2 seriate, imbricate, planocompressed, samaroid wing terminal oblong. (Bailey’s Queensland 
Flora, iv, 1357.) 
The genus Embothrium, is divided by Engler into two sections. 
Sect. 1. Euembothrium. Point of the style elongated, fusiform. 
Sect. 2. Oreocallis. Point of the style oblique, elongated ovoid, lateral. Axis 
of the flower very oblique. 
The only Australian species belongs to Sect. 2. 
It may he well to remind my readers who possess old botany books containing 
illustrations of Australian plants that the genus Embothrium formerly had a much 
wider scope than botanists have restricted it to at the present day. For example, it 
included the Waratah and many Grevilleas. 
Botanical description. —Species, A 1 . Wickhami, Hill and Mueller, in Fragm. viii, 
164, and ix, 194. 
A tall tree. 
Leaves ovate, oblong, thick coriaceous 2 to 6 inches long, f to li inches broad, entire, veins 
immersed, brown on the underside. 
Petioles about 1 inch long. 
Flowers in corymbs at the end of the branchlets or in the upper axils; peduncle short. 
Pedicels germinate, 1 to 1| inches long; bracts linear-subulate 1 to 1| hues long, deciduous. 
Perianth about 1 inch long, deep red, tube split on one side, slightly curved, limb before expanding 
oblique-globose, about 1J lines long, lobes, more or less coherent. 
Anthers sessile, round-ovate, blunt opening widely, two-thirds line long. 
Ltypngynaus disk long, horseshoe-shaped. 
Stipes of ovary about 3 lines long. 
