68 . Mr. Brown, on the Proteacee of Jussieu. 
dividendum, phalangibus infra propositis genera futura in- 
dicantibus. | 
Erym. Iergos et Que». Hi frutices enim semper. in saxosis 
apricis proveniunt. ! 
Oss. Mr. Salisbury has united such of the New Holland Pro- 
tex as he had seen, into one genus, which he calls Atylus ; 
a name meant to express the want of those bodies that usu- 
ally surround the ovarium, in this order,and which he chooses 
. to term calli: but as I conceive they are certainly secreting 
organs, the name on this ground would be exceptionable: my - 
chief reason however for not adopting it, either for the pre- 
-sent or the following genus, is, that the whole of his essential 
character does not apply to either of them. In his secon- 
dary character, he has also considered them as monoicous, a 
mistake into which he has probably been led, not only from. 
the striking similarity between the strobili of Petrophila and 
— Leucadendron, but also froin the style of the former remain- 
ing for some time unwithered after the calyx has fallen off. 
In one species he has even described the relative-situation of 
the sexes ; regarding the terminating amentum of P. pulchella 
as female, and the lesser ones, which frequently though not 
always surround it, as male; but that this is not the case is 
proved by Cavanilles' figure of the species, in which all the 
amenta are in fruit, and a specimen in the same. state may | 
- beseen in Sir Joseph Banks’s Hentai La bd A 
+ Stigma articulatum, — inferiore dalio ey superiore tomentoso. Nux 
lenticulari-compressa, intùs marginibusque comosa., Folia filiformia indivisa» 
*1. P. teretifolia, foliis teretibus exsulcis, squamis strobili ener- 
vibus, stigmatis articulo superiore stuposo triplo longiore. 
AT Has. 
" Eu. 
