224 Mr. Brown, on the Proteacee of Jussieu. 
Ogs. Singularis, Foliis verè compositis, petiolellis cum rachi 
articulatis ; et Squamáà hypogyná pedicello ovarii adnatá, 
nec ipso receptaculo connexa. 
OnrTINA acicularis. Append. Flor. Nov. Holl. ined. 
This is a perfectly smooth erect shrub ; with alternate cylindri- 
cal leaves, furrowed on the upper surface and terminated by 
a pungent mucro. lobserved it only on the summit of the 
Table Mountain, at the southern extremity of Van Diemen's 
Island. The perfect flowers I have not seen, but have exa- 
mined the ovarium so soon after foecundation, that I have 
no doubt of its containing originally only two ovula ; and as 
its base is surrounded by four glands, the calyx is probably 
regular. Hence its near affinity to Orites, with which it also 
-—agrees in inflorescence and apparently in stigma, The fruit 
is a smooth compressed coriaceous follicule, containing two 
seeds, which are winged at both ends ; on which accountI 
have not absolutely referred it to Orites, but, until its lowers 
are discovered, have given it a temporary name, indicating 
its affinity to that genus. 
Banksıa musculiformis. Gert. Sem. 1. p. 221. Lam. Illust. 
Gen. 1. p. 242. n. 1980. 
Fructus musculiformis. Rumph. Amb. 9. p. 184. t. 60. 
Geertner has taken up this plant entirely from Rumpf's figure, 
and referred it to Ganksia on account of its fruit contain- 
ing according to that author two winged seeds. But from 
Rumpf's description, it appears that the whole plant is 
lactescent ; hence it probably does not belong to this family, 
but rather to Apocinie, as Burmannus has already con- 
jectured. 
Cytinpria. Lour. Cochin. ed, Willd. 1. p. 86. ! 
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