506 PROTEACE (Stapf). [ Aulaz. 
portion corresponding to the limb of the male perianth, channelled. 
Staminodes inserted at the base of the limb, very short, filiform. 
Hypogynous scales 0. Ovary oblong-ovoid, densely covered with long 
hairs ; style filiform, subclavate upwards; stigma lateral at the 
end of the style, oblong, deeply and longitudinally grooved, papillose. 
Ovule 1, ascending from near the base, anatropous. Nut somewhat 
compressed, angular, hairy. Cotyledons thick, equal. 
Glabrous, densely foliate shrubs ; leaves scattered, undivided, entire, narrow, 
coriaceous ; male flowers in spike-like, bracteate racemes, terminal on leafy, short, 
equal or unequal branchlets, which are usually gathered into fascicles or pseudo- 
whorls at the end of longer shoots ; bracts subulate, persistent with the pedicels ; 
female flowers in involucrate heads arranged more or less like the male racemes, 
but usually fewer and surrounded by the crowded uppermost leaves, which often 
exceed them considerably ; heads made up of whorls of 10-15 highly modified 
bract-like branchlets, forming a persistent involucre, and of a short conical central 
axis ; involucral branchlets dorsally flattened, with a few more or less reduced 
leaves on the back (representing an outer involucre) and with the margins pectinate 
upwards, the marginal segments being formed by subulate persistent bracts 
bearing modified subulate axes (arrested flowers) in their axils, whilst the inner 
faces of the branchlets are either smooth and naked or some distance above the 
base bear a solitary ¢ flower ; involucre at length woody and sometimes spreading 
out star-like when dry ; central axis short, bearing the bracteate flowers at the 
base and upwards to a varying height, sometimes ending ina tuft of barren bracts ; 
flowers yellow or whitish-yellow. 
Distris, Three species in the South-west corner of Cape Colony. 
Female flowers confined to the central axis of the head ; 
nut with the lateral ribs more prominent than the 
others and long bearded, the ventral and the dorsal 
shortly hairy; the faces between the angles with 
oblique or transverse raised veins: 
Leaves linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate-cuneate, very 
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Leaves long needle-shaped week (ree oa ... (2) pinifolia, 
Female flowers on the central axis and on the involucral 
branches ; nut more rounded in cross section, long 
villous all over, with secondary ribs between the flat 
broad primary ones wie ee ee 7 
(3) pallasia. 
1. A. cneorifolia (Knight, Prot. 15); shrub, 2 to 6 ft. high; 
leaves linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate-cuneate, obtuse to very 
obtuse with a minute callous apiculus, flat, 14-3 in. long, 14-5 lin. 
broad, venation raised, distinct in the wider leaves ; male racemes 
1-2 in. long, rather stiff; bracts 14-2 lin. long, equalling or 
exceeding the pedicels ; perianth whitish or pale yellow, 3-3} lin. 
long including the 2-2} lin.-long limb ; anthers about | lin. long, 
usually at length recurved; style 2}-3 lin. long, very slender ; 
female heads 3-1 in. high and 1-1} in. across; involucral branches 
not bearing flowers, more or less fused below into a shallow 
receptacle, quite glabrous, at length hard and woody; dorsal leaves 
linear-lanceolate and acute to spathulate and obtuse, 6-12 lin. long ; 
central axis stout, ending in a sharp point, 4-6 lin. long ; bracts 
linear-lanceolate, 2-1 lin. long; perianth 4 lin. long including the 
