Stenocarpus
(from stenos, narrow, and karpos, a fruit; alluding to the usually nearly flat follicles). SYNS. Agnostus, Cybele. ORD. Proteaceae. A genus comprising fourteen species of stove or greenhouse trees, of which three are Australian and the rest New Caledonian. Flowers yellow, white, or red, umbellate, hermaphrodite, slightly irregular; perianth tube elongated, opening along the lower side; limb sub-globose, recurved, the segments at length separating; anthers sessile within the concave lamina; bracts small and highly caducous, or absent. Leaves alternate or scattered, entire or deeply pinnatifid with few lobes. Only three of the species have been introduced. For culture, see Lomatia.
S. Cunninghamii (Cunningham's). A synonym of S. sinuatus. S. Forsteri (Forster's). fl. white; perianth four to five lines long; pedicels longer than the perianth; umbels solitary, six to eight-flowered; peduncles terminal, equalling the leaves. June. l. oblong, obtuse, attenuated and slightly petiolate, entire, ten to eighteen lines long, three to six lines broad, almost veinless. Branches terete; branchlets slender. h. 3ft. New Caledonia, 1850. (L. & P. F. G. ii. p. 166.) S. salignus (Willow-like). Beef Wood. fl. greenish; perianth usually under 1/2in. long; pedicels 1/4in. to 1/2in. long, irregularly crowded; peduncles slender, terminal or in the upper axils, usually shorter than the leaves, bearing a single umbel of ten to thirty flowers. June. l. ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, acute, acuminate, or rarely obtuse, 2in. to 4in. long, tapering into short petioles. h. 5ft. or more. Australia, 1719. (B. R. 441.) S. sinuatus (sinuate).* Fire-tree or Tulip-tree of Queensland. fl. bright red; perianth tube 1in. or more long, straight, tapering upwards; peduncles terminal, 2in. to 4in. long, each bearing an umbel of twelve to twenty flowers, and either generally umbellate or shortly racemose. June. l. petiolate, either undivided, oblong-lanceolate, and 6in. to 8in. long, or pinnatifid and above 1ft. long, with one to four oblong lobes on each side. h. (in Australia) 60ft. to 100ft. 1830. SYN. S. Cunninghamii (B. M. 4263; F. d. S. iii. 7; P. M. B. xiv. 1).