Brabeiwm. | PROTEACEZ (Stapf). 505 
glabrous; leaves lanceolate, acute or subobtuse and apiculate, 
distantly serrate, 3-6 in. long, }—1 in. broad, coriaceous, fulvously 
silky-tomentose in bud, usually very soon glabrescent, prominently 
reticulated, midrib very prominent below ; petiole short; racemes 
cylindric, about 3 in. (the female sometimes up to 6 in.) long, 
solitary or sometimes ternate on a short common peduncle ; axis of 
raceme fulvous-villous ; bracts closely imbricated, deciduous before 
the opening of the flowers, obovate to elliptic, obtuse, 2—2} lin. 
long, 1} lin. broad, membranous, fulvously to rufously villous ; 
flowers white, sweet-scented ; pedicel 2-24 lin. long, finely greyish- 
villous ; segments free to the base, spathulate-linear, obtuse, 2? lin. 
long, revolute, sparingly hairy; filaments 1 lin. long; anthers 
scarcely } lin. long; apical gland minute, ovate ; style 1? lin. long, 
glabrous, long persistent, covered with long fulvous or rufous 
hairs; mature fruit borne on pedicels 2-2} lin. long, obovoid, 
constricted at one or both ends, 1-1} in. long, densely rufously 
velvety. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 177; Linn. Mant. 332; R. Br. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 165; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 344 ; Pappe, 
Silva Cap. ed. i. 29; Sim, For. Fl. Cape, 299, t. 132. B. stelluli- 
folium, Murray (Linn.) Syst. Veg. ed. xiii. 764 ; Houtt. Handl. vi. 
424, t. 37; Lam. Ill. t. 847; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 972; Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 399. B. stellatum, Thunb. Prodr. 31 ; Fl. Cap. 
ed. Schult. 156. B. stellare, Knight, Prot. 98. Brabyla capensis, 
Linn. Mant. 137. Amygdalus zxthiopica, etc., Breyne, Cent. 1. t. 1. 
Arbor exthiopica hexaphylla, Pluk. Almag. 47, t. 265, fig. 3. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Grey! Gueinzius ! 
Coast Recron: Tulbagh Div.; Mitchells Pass, Bolus, 4639! Cape Div.; near 
Paradise, east side of Table Mountain, Pappe! near Cape Town, Burchell, 426! 
Phillips, Paarl Div.; near Paarl, Thunberg. Paarl Mountain, Drége! Stellen- 
bosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1522! Caledon 
Div. ; by the Palmiet River, ex Meisner. Swellendam Div. ; near the Buffeljagts 
and Zondereinde Rivers, Thunberg. Riversdale Div. ; between Garcias Pass and 
Krombecks River, Burchell, 7175 ! 
The red, reticulated wood is used for ornamental joiners’ and turners’ work. 
The seed may be eaten after prolonged soaking in water, but is considered 
unwholesome when fresh. 
II. AULAX, Berg. 
Flowers dicecious, actinomorphic. Male flowers :—Perianth very 
indistinctly differentiated into tube and limb, tubular, straight in 
bud, on opening separating into 4 linear segments ; the channelled 
limbs about twice as long as the claws. Anthers linear on very 
short filaments, inserted at the base of the perianth-limbs ; connective 
not produced. Hypogynous scales 0. Ovary rudimentary, small, 
with a subulate style thickened upwards. Female flowers :—Perianth 
tubular in bud, widened towards the base, cylindric above, in the 
open flower consisting of a subangular elongate-conical tube and 
4 more or less spreading or recurved lobes, as long as or shorter 
than the tube; lobes filiform from a widened base, the filiform 
