LAMBERTIA (named after A. B. Lambert, 1779-1825, a distinguished patron of botany). ORD. Proteaceae. A genus containing eight species of greenhouse evergreen shrubs, endemic in extra-tropical Australia. Flowers red or yellow, usually long, solitary or seven together, sessile within an involucre of imbricate coloured bracts. Leaves mostly in whorls of three, rarely of four, or sometimes scattered at the base of luxuriant shoots, entire, or with spinescent teeth. Lambertias thrive in a compost of sandy peat and fibry loam. Ample drainage must be given. Propagated by cuttings of young and rather firm shoots; or by seeds, sown in slight heat. LAMBERTIA formosa (beautiful).* fl., involucres terminal, usually solitary, seven-flowered; inner bracts narrow, silky-pubescent outside; outer ones short and ovate. June to August. l. linear or slightly linear-cuneate; margins recurved, contracted into a very short petiole, rigid, shining above, pale or almost ferruginous beneath. 1788. A tall shrub. (A. B. R. 69; B. R. 528; L. B. C. 80.)