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Embothrium (name refers to the structure of the anthers). Proteaceae. A few trees and shrubs of S. Amer., one of which is offered abroad as a greenhouse subject, grown from seeds, and apparently prized for the fls. Foliage sparse, coriaceous, entire: fls. in dense racemes, showy, perfect: perianth with a cylindrical split tube, the limb ovoid or globose in bud but becoming oblique or recurved; stamens 4, the anthers attached in lobes of the perianth: follicles oblong, 1- celled, many-seeded. E. coccineum, Forst., is a shrub bearing bright scarlet fls. about 2 in. long in many-fld. terminal sessile racemes: perianth tubular, upwardly curved, the 4 reflexing twisting lobes representing a third of its length; anthers imbedded in the concave apices of the perianth-lobes; pistil with an elongated cylindrical ovary and long-exserted red style: Lvs. oblong to elliptic, short-stalked, alternate, obtuse and mucronate, pale beneath. Chile. B.M. 4856.—Should be hardy in warm-temperate parts.
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