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LOMATIA longifolia. 
Long- leaved Lomatia. 
—= 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. Prorex. Jussieu gen. 78. Div. I. Fructus 1-loc. polysper- 
mus. 
ProTEACER. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 15, seqq. Div. 
I, Fructus dehiscens. Subdiv. A. Unilocularis. ; ube 
LOMATIA. Cor. irregularis, petalis distinctis secundis. Stam. apici- 
bus cayvis corolla immersa. Glandule hypogyne 3, secunde. Germ. pedi- 
cellatum, polyspermum. Stylus persistens. Stig. obliquum, dilatatum, 
subrotundum, planiusculum. » Folliculus ovali-oblongus. Sem. apice alata; 
ala marginata, disco evasculoso. J’rutices. Fol. alterna, in plerisque di- 
visa v. dentata, rarids integerrima, quanddque in eodem frutice varia. 
Racemi terminales, interdum axillares, elongati, laxi, nunc abbreviati co- 
rymbost, paribus pedicellorum 1-bracteatis. Flores ochroleuct. Involucr. 
nullum. Seminis nucleus farind sulphured conspersus. Brown prod. 1. 389. 
L. longifolia, foliis lineari-lanceolatis elongatis glabris remoteé serratis, race- 
mis axillaribus, pedicellis corollisque pilosiusculis, pistillis glaberrimis. 
Brown prod. 1. 390. 
Lomatia longifolia. Brown in linn. trans. 10. 200. 
Sweet hort. suburb. lond. 
22. 
_Embothrium myricoides. Gert. sem. 3. 215. t. 218? (conjectante Dom. 
Brown.) 
Tricondylus myricefolius. Knight et Salisb. prot. 122. 
The foliage of the plant of our figure was considerably 
narrower and far less conspicuously indented than in the na- 
tive specimens in the Banksian Herbarium: the racemes 
were also longer and more remotely flowered. But we 
believe the differences to be entirely imputable either to se- 
minal variation or exotic culture; and not the types of 
specific origin. . 
The species is not enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis; 
but we find by Sweet’s useful Catalogue of the Garden 
Plants in the environs of London, that it was introduced in 
1816 from New Holland; where it was originally observed 
by Mr. Brown on the Eastern Coast, near Port Jackson, 
growing on rocky banks of rivers and streams. 
Lomatia is the only genus-of the australasian Proteacece, 
besides Srenocarpus of the preceding article, that has been 
yet observed to extend its type into other regions. It con- 
