CVII. PROTEACE®. 329 
2 rows) ; style simple, terminal ; stigma terminal or lateral. 
Fruit (in the African genera) a 1-seeded nut or drupe. Albu- 
men 0.—Trees, shrubs or undershrubs, very varied in aspect, 
with rigid, exstipulate, entire or multifid, alternate, rarely 
opposite or whorled leaves. Flowers either capitate, spiked 
or axillary, rarely umbelled. The species are chiefly natives 
of the Western districts. 
Flowers dicecious (male and female on different plants). 
Male flowers racemose ; nuts exserted, bearded . 1. AULAX. 
Male flowers capitate ; nuts glabrous, hidden under 
the broad scales of a cone-like involucre . . . 2. LEUCADENDRON. 
Flowers bisexual and fertile or rarely polygamous in 
the same inflorescence. 
Flowers in many-flowered or indefinitely few- 
flowered, terminal or axillary heads. 
Calyx irregular, 2-labiate, 3 lacinize (or all) co- 
hering. 
Antheriferous apices of calyx cohering ; nuts 
bearded, tailed by the persistent style . . 3. PROTEA, 
Antheriferous apices se nuts smooth, 
not tailed - . . . . 4, LEUCOSPERMUM. 
Calyx distinctly 4-cleft, ‘regular. 
Nut sessile, smooth ; leaves flat, expanded, 
entire or toothed . . . . 5. MIMETEs. 
Nut pedicellate, hairy or glabrescent ; ‘leaves 
filiform, 3-pinnatiparted or rarely entire . 6. SERRURIA. 
Flowers in 1-flowered or definitely 2-6-flowered 
involucred heads, which are congested in ter- 
minal spikes or head-like glomerules. 
Calyx regular ; stigma vertical, clavate. 
Nut sessile, entire at base; leaves flat, the 
upper entire or cut, lower pinnatiparted . 7. NIVENIA. 
Nut pedicellate or emarginate at base; leaves 
linear, entire or some of the lower decom- 
pound. sees . . . » §&. SOROCEPHALUS. 
Calyx irregular, 1 segment larger ; stigma ob- 
lique, dilated... . . . 9. SPATALLA. 
Flowers in spikes or racemes (not capitate). 
Anthers sessile in the apices of the calyx-lobes; 
nut bearded; spikes terminal; leaves alter- 
nate, quite entire. . . 10. Favurea. 
Anthers on short filimnont’: ae the pase ‘of ‘the de 
parted- calyx; drupe velvety ; racemes axil- 
lary ; leaves whorled, serrated . . . . . 11. BRABEIUM. 
1. AULAX, Berg. 
Flowers dicecious, the male in racemes, nude; female capi- 
tate, bracteate. Calyx regular, 4-parted; segments, in the 
males, bearing anthers in the middle. Hypogynous scales in 
male 0, in female 4. Ovary 1-ovuled ; stigma oblique, clavate, 
hispidulous, emarginate. Nut exserted, ventricose, bearded. 
—DC. Prod. xiv. p. 211. 
